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- The Savage ** (1952, Charlton Heston, Susan Morrow, Peter Hansen, Joan Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 13,573
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- The Statement ** (2003, Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Northam, Alan Bates, Charlotte Rampling, John Neville, Ciarân Hinds, Frank Finlay) – Classic Movie Review 13,571
- State Secret [The Great Manhunt] **** (1950, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 13,570
- The Late Edwina Black [Obsessed] ** (1951, Geraldine Fitzgerald, David Farrar, Roland Culver, Jean Cadell, Mary Merrall, Harcourt Williams) – Classic Movie Review 13,569
- 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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- Tale of Three Women * (1954, Hazel Court, David Horne, Derek Bond, Gene Anderson, Jack Watling, Catherine Finn, Karel Stepanek) – Classic Movie Review 13,565
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Posts Tagged "Jim Thompson"
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The Getaway **** (1994, Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, James Woods) – Classic Movie Review 2228
Director Roger Donaldson’s 1994 action crime thriller is a surprise remake of the Steve McQueen-Ali MacGraw 1972 classic favourite. This time Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger star as the crooks on the run from both […]
The Getaway ***** (1972, Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Al Lettieri, Sally Struthers, Jack Dodson, Slim Pickens, Dub Taylor, Bo Hopkins, Richard Bright) – Classic Movie Review 1355
Sam Peckinpah’s 1972 action crime thriller The Getaway is one of this great director’s greatest movies, and most successful. Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw star as jailed bank robber ‘Doc’ McCoy and his loyal wife […]
The Grifters ***** (1990, Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening) – Classic Movie Review 1354
Director Stephen Frears’s hardboiled 1990 thriller takes no prisoners and does 100 per cent justice to its rightly revered source author Jim Thompson. It finds Anjelica Huston on scalding form as Lilly Dillon, a small-time […]
The Killing ***** (1956, Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C Flippen, Marie Windsor, Ted de Corsia, Elisha Cook Jr, Timothy Carey) – Classic Movie Review 359
Stanley Kubrick’s exhilarating youthful 1956 masterpiece – his third feature made when he was 28 – is a taut, fast-paced, atmospheric B-movie noir thriller. It gets top mileage from its carefully delineated characters of hoods […]
After Dark, My Sweet **** (1990, Jason Patric, Rachel Ward, Bruce Dern) – Classic Film Review 332
In 1990, James Foley wrote and directed the top-notch neo noir film tale of kidnapping and double-cross After Dark, My Sweet, flawlessly adapted from Jim Thompson’s hardboiled novel. ‘When a man stops caring what happens, all the strain […]
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