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London After Midnight (1927, Lon Chaney Sr, Marceline Day, Conrad Nagel, Henry B Walthall, Percy Williams, Polly Moran) – Classic Movie Review 6356

Director Tod Browning’s reputedly engaging and rousing 1927 famed silent vampire chiller stars Lon Chaney Sr as Scotland Yard inspector Professor Edward C Burke, who terrifies lovely young Miss Smithson (Polly Moran), the new maid, while […]

Dec, 04

Pretty Poison **** (1968, Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Beverly Garland) – Classic Movie Review 6335

At the top of their game, Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld are stupendous in director Noel Black’s satisfying, offbeat 1968 thriller based on Stephen Geller’s novel She Let Him Continue, mixing in a little twisted […]

Nov, 29

Busman’s Honeymoon [Haunted Honeymoon] *** (1940, Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks, Seymour Hicks, Robert Newton, Googie Withers) – Classic Movie Review 6,286

The deliciously charming and amusing 1940 British comedy thriller film Busman’s Honeymoon [Haunted Honeymoon] is based on Dorothy L Sayers’s co-authored London West End play. Director Arthur B Woods’s deliciously charming and amusing 1940 British […]

Nov, 22

Where Love Has Gone *** (1964, Susan Hayward, Bette Davis, Mike Connors, Joey Heatherton, Jane Greer, George Macready, DeForest Kelley) – Classic Movie Review 6284

Director Edward Dmytryk’s lurid 1964 drama is an unseemly but suitably overwrought version of Harold Robbins’s best-selling novel, doubtless sparked off by the real-life story of Lana Turner’s daughter Cheryl killing Lana’s lover in 1958. (She was […]

Nov, 22

Blood Relatives [Les Liens de Sang] *** (1978, Donald Sutherland, Stéphane Audran, Donald Pleasence, David Hemmings, Aude Landry, Lisa Langlois) – Classic Movie Review 6268

This dark and mysterious 1978 sexual crime mystery chiller with an incest theme comes from the renowned French director Claude Chabrol, who gives his bleak-toned adaptation of an Ed McBain novel a touch of class. […]

Nov, 18

Drop Dead Darling [Arrivederci, Baby!] * (1966, Tony Curtis, Rosanna Schiaffino, Lionel Jeffries, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Nancy Kwan, Fenella Fielding, Anna Quayle) – Classic Movie Review 6229

Tony Curtis plays Nick, literally, a ladykiller who weds ’em then kills ’em to his heart’s content to inherit from his rich widows until he meets his match in his latest wife, young Italian widowed […]

Nov, 11

Murder on the Orient Express ** (2017, Kenneth Branagh, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Michelle Pfeiffer, Josh Gad, Johnny Depp, Derek Jacobi, Judi Dench, Willem Dafoe) – Movie Review

Director Kenneth Branagh’s remake of the famous Agatha Christie murder mystery thriller Murder on the Orient Express is mostly stodgy, creaky and clunky, and finally unsatisfying, though his starry support cast are mostly welcome and it looks […]

Nov, 03

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