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Posts Tagged "murder"
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D.O.A. *** (1988, Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Charlotte Rampling, Daniel Stern) – Classic Movie Review 6676
The 1950 cult classic film noir crime thriller D.O.A. was remade in Australia in 1969 as Color Me Dead, directed by Eddie Davis, before this 1988 D.O.A. remake, directed Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton and starring Dennis […]
Frantic **** (1988, Harrison Ford, Betty Buckley, Emmanuelle Seigner, Alexandra Stewart, John Mahoney) – Classic Movie Review 6663
Director Roman Polanski’s mischievous 1988 thriller is a hugely entertaining Hitchcock spoof starring Harrison Ford as the earnest, sympathetic middle-aged hero, Dr Richard Walker, the typical innocent abroad. Dr Walker is an American in Paris […]
Manon **** (1949, Cécile Aubry, Michel Auclair, Serge Reggiani) – Classic Movie Review 6654
Director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s impressive and engrossing 1949 film version of Abbé Prévost’s classic novel Manon Lescault is updated to post-World War Two France, and a situation close to his heart, persecution for collaborating with the […]
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 […]
The Walking Dead **** (1936, Boris Karloff, Edmund Gwenn, Marguerite Churchill, Ricardo Cortez, Henry O’Neill, Barton MacLane) – Classic Movie Review 6652
‘BACK FROM THE DEAD!’ ‘HOW CAN A MAN AVENGE HIS OWN MURDER?’ Director Michael Curtiz’s lusty handled, eerily scary 1936 Warner Bros horror movie stars Boris Karloff as pianist ex-con John Ellman, a convicted killer […]
Roman J Israel, Esq *** (2017, Denzel Washington, Colin Farrell, Carmen Ejogo) – Movie Review
Oscar nominated Denzel Washington gives a slightly fussy, rather florid performance as autistic savant idealistic defense attorney Roman J Israel, Esq in writer-director Dan Gilroy’s low-key, slow-moving personal existential crisis drama. Roman has Asperger syndrome, a developmental […]
Night Must Fall **** (1937, Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty) – Classic Movie Review 6,630
MGM’s creepy 1937 thriller film Night Must Fall is the well-crafted original version of Emlyn Williams’s 1935 stage success chiller about a charming but psychopathic live-in companion (Robert Montgomery), who preys on a vain old […]