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The Roaring Twenties ***** (1939, James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George, Jeffrey Lynn) – Classic Movie Review 3677

Director Raoul Walsh’s essential, rousing 1939 gangster movie stars James Cagney in one of his key roles. It’s a tale of three buddies trying survive in Prohibition America after fighting together in World War One. Cagney […]

May, 08

The Hunted ***½ (1948, Preston Foster, Belita, Pierre Watkin) – Classic Movie Review 3674

Director Jack Bernhard’s 1948 thriller is an expert, tense and moody film noir, in which Preston Foster stars as a cop probing a gem theft who finds his main squeeze (Belita) may be the criminal […]

May, 08

Tiger Bay **** (1959, Hayley Mills, Horst Buchholz, John Mills, Yvonne Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 3,669

Director J Lee Thompson’s taut, carefully scripted, well-acted 1959 thriller Tiger Bay stars 12-year-old Hayley Mills, who is superb in her film début as Gillie, a Cardiff dockland tomboy waif who observes Polish merchant marine Korchinsky […]

May, 07

The Oklahoma Kid *** (1939, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane) – Classic Movie Review 3665

Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1939 Western features players boldly cast but all too evidently off their usual underworld patch. James Cagney is the notorious ‘good’ outlaw, Jim Kincaid, aka The Oklahoma Kid, who seeks to avenge […]

May, 06

The Underworld Story *** (1950, Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm, Mary Anderson, Howard Da Silva) – Classic Movie Review 3657

Excellent, telling performances from Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm, Mary Anderson and Howard Da Silva spark director Cy Endfield’s gritty 1950 crime drama thriller The Underworld Story, based on a story by Craig Rice. […]

May, 04

Hamlet ***** (1948, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney, Felix Aylmer, Stanley Holloway, John Laurie) – Classic Movie Review 3647

Laurence Olivier took the Oscars for both Best Picture and Best Actor for his intelligent, involving and marvellously cinematic 1948 film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragic play. And there were Oscars for Art Direction-Set Decoration […]

May, 02

Richard III ****½ (1955, Laurence Olivier, Cedric Hardwicke, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Claire Bloom, Stanley Baker, Alec Clunes, Pamela Brown, Michael Gough) – Classic Movie Review 3646

Laurence Olivier’s 1955 film triumph is his third William Shakespeare adaptation as star and director, following Henry V (1944) and Hamlet (1948). There were three 1956 Bafta wins – for Best British Actor, Best British Film and Best Film […]

May, 02

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