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Johnny Stool Pigeon *** (1949, Howard Duff, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Gar Moore, Tony Curtis, John McIntire, Barry Kelley, Leif Erickson) – Classic Movie Review 11,407

Director William Castle’s 1949 American black and white film noir crime thriller Johnny Stool Pigeon stars Howard Duff, Shelley Winters and Dan Duryea, along with Gar Moore, Tony Curtis, John McIntire, Barry Kelley and Leif Erickson. […]

Jul, 20

Juice ***½ (1992, Omar Epps, Tupac Shakur, Jermaine Hopkins, Khalil Kain, Samuel L Jackson, Queen Latifah) – Classic Movie Review 10,155

Co-writer/ director Ernest R Dickerson, who frequently worked as a cinematographer on many of Spike Lee’s early movies, puts on a director’s cap for the first time for the tough-edged 1992 rights-of-passage action crime drama […]

Aug, 09

Car Wash **** (1976, Richard Pryor, Franklyn Ajaye, Darrow Igus) – Classic Movie Review 9869

‘Hey, it’s a ’70s thing! ‘ The 1976 blaxploitation comedy Car Wash is an appealing, zany farce, with director Michael Schultz giving his largely black cast plenty of room to enjoy prankish japes around the […]

Jun, 06

The Oblong Box *** (1969, Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Alister Williamson, Hilary Dwyer, Peter Arne, Sally Geeson, Rupert Davies, Michael Balfour, Maxwell Shaw, Harry Baird) – Classic Movie Review 2832

Vincent Price and Christopher Lee star together for the first time in American International Pictures’ tasty, effective 1969 gothic shocker officially based on Edgar Allan Poe’s The Premature Burial, but also combining ideas taken from […]

Aug, 19

The Friends of Eddie Coyle ***** (1973, Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Steven Keats, Alex Rocco, Joe Santos, Mitchell Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 2715

Director Peter (Bullitt) Yates’s 1973 neo-noir crime thriller The Friends of Eddie Coyle is a highly impressive and often exhilarating gem. Robert Mitchum enjoys one of his best parts in the Seventies as Eddie ‘Fingers’ Coyle, […]

Jul, 17

The Public Enemy ***** (1931, James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Mae Clarke) – Classic Movie Review 1590

Hooray for one of James Cagney’s most iconic and brilliant performances as Tom Powers, a fiery, hot-tempered lad from the Chicago slums who grows up to be a young hoodlum and rises high up through the […]

Aug, 25

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