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Take My Life **** (1947, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, Marius Goring, Francis L Sullivan, Rosalie Crutchley) – Classic Movie Review 13,480

Ronald Neame’s 1947 British crime film Take My Life is adapted from from an original screen story by Winston Graham and Valerie Taylor, and stars Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt and Marius Goring. Director Ronald Neame’s […]

Apr, 23

Man in the Attic ** (1953, Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer, Frances Bavier, Rhys Williams, Sean McClory, Isabel Jewell) – Classic Movie Review 12,346

Director Hugo Fregonese’s 1953 thriller mystery film Man in the Attic stars Jack Palance, who is well cast and relishes his meaty role as a Jack the Ripper-style serial killer suspect in this retread of […]

Nov, 24

Confession [The Deadliest Sin] ** (1955, Sydney Chaplin, Audrey Dalton, John Bentley, Peter Hammond) – Classic Movie Review 12,253

‘MOST AMAZING CRIME DRAMA OF THE YEAR! The Door Past Which No Law Could Go.’ Director Ken Hughes’s 1955 British black and white crime drama Confession [The Deadliest Sin] stars Sydney Chaplin, Audrey Dalton, John […]

Jul, 28

It! ** (1967, Roddy McDowall, Jill Haworth, Paul Maxwell) – Classic Movie Review 7292

‘He who in the 20th century shall dare evoke me, beware, for neither by fire, nor water, nor force, nor anything by man created can I be destroyed.’ Producer, screenwriter, director Herbert J Leder’s 1967 […]

Jul, 15

L’Assassin Habite au 21 [The Murderer Lives at Number 21] **** (1942, Pierre Fresnay, Suzy Delair, Jean Tissier, Noël Roquevert, Pierre Larquey) – Classic Movie Review 6653

This excellent, highly sympathetic, thriller-cum-character study comedy comes from co-writer/ director Henri-Georges Clouzot, the maker of Les Diaboliques, making a strong impression with his first solo film as director. Pierre Fresnay stars as Le Commissaire […]

Feb, 05

London After Midnight (1927, Lon Chaney Sr, Marceline Day, Conrad Nagel, Henry B Walthall, Percy Williams, Polly Moran) – Classic Movie Review 6356

Director Tod Browning’s reputedly engaging and rousing 1927 famed silent vampire chiller stars Lon Chaney Sr as Scotland Yard inspector Professor Edward C Burke, who terrifies lovely young Miss Smithson (Polly Moran), the new maid, while […]

Dec, 04

Blood Relatives [Les Liens de Sang] *** (1978, Donald Sutherland, Stéphane Audran, Donald Pleasence, David Hemmings, Aude Landry, Lisa Langlois) – Classic Movie Review 6268

This dark and mysterious 1978 sexual crime mystery chiller with an incest theme comes from the renowned French director Claude Chabrol, who gives his bleak-toned adaptation of an Ed McBain novel a touch of class. […]

Nov, 18

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