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Posts Tagged "jewel thief"

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Cairo ** (1963, George Sanders, Richard Johnson, Faten Hamamah, John Meillon, Eric Pohlmann) – Classic Movie Review 8,203

The 1963 black and white Egypt jewel treasures heist caper thriller film Cairo is one of MGM’s three attempted remakes of the 1950 classic The Asphalt Jungle, with the supposedly ‘perfect’ robbery this time effectively […]

Mar, 05

Into the Night **** (1985, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dan Aykroyd, David Bowie, Richard Farnsworth, Irene Papas, Vera Miles, Dan Aykroyd, Clu Gulager, Kathryn Harrold) – Classic Movie Review 7621

Director John Landis’s dark and dangerous 1985 comedy thriller Into the Night stars Jeff Goldblum as wimpish Los Angeles aviation designer Ed Okin, who cannot sleep, so he drives aimlessly around LA and ends up in the parking garage […]

Sep, 27

Big Brown Eyes **** (1936, Cary Grant, Joan Bennett, Walter Pidgeon) – Classic Movie Review 7184

Co-writer/ director Raoul Walsh’s 1936 Paramount Pictures black and white comedy mystery thriller Big Brown Eyes effectively teams charismatic stars Cary Grant and Joan Bennett. Police detective sergeant Danny Barr (Grant) and his girlfriend, wacky manicurist-reporter […]

Jun, 17

Now and Forever ** (1934, Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, Shirley Temple, Guy Standing) – Classic Movie Review 6762

Director Henry Hathaway’s 1934 Paramount comedy stars Gary Cooper as Jerry Day, a confidence trickster and swindling thief who prefers the footloose and fancy free life. But after his second marriage to Toni (Carole Lombard) […]

Mar, 04

They Met in Bombay *** (1941, Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, Peter Lorre, Reginald Owen, Jessie Ralph) – Classic Movie Review 6708

Director Clarence Brown’s entertaining 1941 MGM wartime comedy crime adventure stars a great vintage line-up in Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, Peter Lorre, Reginald Owen and Jessie Ralph. Gable plays jewel thief Gerald Meldrick and Russell plays sophisticated […]

Feb, 18

Desire **** (1936, Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday, William Frawley, Akim Tamiroff, Alan Mowbray) – Classic Movie Review 5409

‘LOVE WAS HER PRECIOUS LOOT!’ Marlene Dietrich stars in the 1936 American film Desire as cultivated sultry European gem thief Madeleine de Beaupré and she is paired with Gary Cooper as simple, down-home American automobile […]

May, 07

Thief [Violent Streets] **** (1981, James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, James Belushi, Robert Prosky, Dennis Farina) – Classic Movie Review 2714

Writer-director Michael Mann’s intriguing and involving 1981 neo-noir heist thriller Thief is his cinema début as director after the TV movie The Jericho Mile in 1979. It showcases a rich and riveting James Caan performance […]

Jul, 17

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