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- An Honourable Murder * (1960, Norman Wooland, Margaretta Scott, Lisa Daniely, Douglas Wilmer, Philip Saville, John Longden) – Classic Movie Review 13,575
- Breathing [Atmen] **** (2011, Thomas Schubert, Gerhard Liebmann, Georg Friedrich, Karin Lischka) – Classic Movie Review 13,574
- The Savage ** (1952, Charlton Heston, Susan Morrow, Peter Hansen, Joan Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 13,573
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- State Secret [The Great Manhunt] **** (1950, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 13,570
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- White Corridors *** (1951, James Donald, Googie Withers, Godfrey Tearle, Petula Clark, Jack Watling, Moira Lister, Barry Jones, Megs Jenkins, Basil Radford) – Classic Movie Review 13,568
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John Q ** (2002, Denzel Washington) Classic Movie Review 1426
Director Nick Cassavetes’s 2002 thriller stars reliable Denzel Washington as John Quincy Archibald, a father and husband whose young son Michael (Daniel E. Smith) is diagnosed with an enlarged heart after he collapses at his baseball […]
Along Came Polly *** (2004, Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Debra Messing, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alec Baldwin, Hank Azaria, Bryan Brown) – Classic Movie Review 1320
Writer-director John Hamburg’s amiable enough 2004 romantic comedy has a super-good cast to get over its bumps and make it work. Risk assessor Reuben Feffer (Ben Stiller) dumps his new wife Lisa (Debra Messing) after […]
The Killers ***** (1946, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Albert Dekker) – Classic Movie Review 1,137
Burt Lancaster makes an electrifying impact in his film début as the former boxer Ole ‘Swede’ Andreson, whose murder by two professional killers is probed in a series of flashbacks by an insurance investigator, in […]
The House of Fear *** (1945, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey, Aubrey Mather, Florette Hillier) – Classic Movie Review 993
Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce’s Dr Watson are happily back on home turf again in the 1945 film The House of Fear, called in by an insurance company to solve a series of […]
The Wrong Man ***** (1956, Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle) – Classic Movie Review 387
Roman Catholic to its very soul, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1956 true-life near docudrama is a devastating portrait of a guiltless victim and his martyrdom. It’s the story of a tormented, Christ-like figure. This time, it’s not […]
The Rainmaker **** (1997, Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, Mary Kay Place, Danny Glover) – Classic Movie Review 382
Francis Ford Coppola’s magnetic 1997 thriller film The Rainmaker makes its case to win the award for the best film adaptation of a John Grisham legal mystery novel. Francis Ford Coppola’s magnetic 1997 thriller film […]
Double Indemnity ***** (1944, Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 164
Co-writer-director Billy Wilder’s 1944 black and white film noir thriller milestone Double Indemnity still plays beautifully whether on late-night TV or on cinema revivals. Hugely admired and much imitated, it is a sizzling movie masterpiece. […]