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Roadhouse Girl [Marilyn] ** (1953, Maxwell Reed, Sandra Dorne, Leslie Dwyer) – Classic Movie Review 10,863

‘NO ESCAPE… from this kind of woman!’ Writer-director Wolf Rilla’s 1953 noir crime drama Roadhouse Girl [Marilyn] stars Maxwell Reed as Tom Price, the new mechanic at the roadside garage and pub owned by middle-aged […]

Feb, 01

Bright Young Things * (2003, Michael Sheen, Stephen Campbell Moore, Emily Mortimer, Dan Aykroyd) – Classic Movie Review 6057

Writer-director Stephen Fry fumbles his 2003 film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s superb satirical novel Vile Bodies in his directing debut, feebly sending up the British press and Thirties posh folk, the Bright Young Things of […]

Oct, 04

Yield to the Night [Blonde Sinner] **** (1956, Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig) – Classic Movie Review 5746

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1956 British anti-capital punishment drama Yield to the Night stars the hitherto cheesecake star Diana Dors, who copes extremely creditably, indeed admirably, with a big serious dramatic role as Mary Price […]

Jul, 12

Voodoo Island *½ (1957, Boris Karloff, Elisha Cook Jr, Rhodes Reason, Beverly Tyler, Murvyn Vye) – Classic Movie Review 5596

The 1957 horror film Voodoo Island has Boris Karloff, voodoo, carnivorous plants, zombies, a lesbian subtext and Adam West’s debut. ‘SUPER-CHILL!’ Director Reginald Le Borg’s low-budget ($150,000) time-passing 1957 horror film Voodoo Island stars Boris Karloff, […]

Jun, 13

Black Sabbath [I Tre Volti della Paura] ***½ (1963, Boris Karloff, Jacqueline Pierreux, Michèle Mercier, Mark Damon) – Classic Movie Review 4552

Co-writer/ director Mario Bava, the Italian chiller maestro, turns in an atmospheric, effective, visually splendid 1963 Italian horror anthology compendium movie of three Gothic tales. It is introduced by Boris Karloff, who also stars in […]

Oct, 28

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