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The Damned Don’t Cry **** (1950, Joan Crawford, Kent Smith, David Brian, Steve Cochran, Hugh Sanders, Richard Egan) – Classic Movie Review 3258

‘She’s the Private Lady of a Public Enemy!’ Director Vincent Sherman’s richly enjoyable 1950 flashback-told black and white film noir crime melodrama The Damned Don’t Cry provides a good role for Joan Crawford to do what […]

Jan, 11

Berserk ** (1967, Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, Diana Dors, Michael Gough, Robert Hardy, Geoffrey Keen, Judy Geeson, Philip Madoc, Sydney Tafler) – Classic Movie Review 3255

Joan Crawford came to England in 1967 f­­or her penultimate movie Berserk to play Monica Rivers, the owner and ringmaster of a struggling circus enjoying the fame and renewed success arising from a series of […]

Jan, 09

Strait-Jacket *** (1964, Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson, Howard St John, John Anthony Hayes, Rochelle Hudson, George Kennedy, Edith Atwater) – Classic Movie Review 3,251

‘Tina, bring me the axe’. Joan Crawford stars as an axe-wielding killer in the full-blooded, frantic 1964 horror movie shocker Strait-Jacket. Producer-director William Castle casts the great Joan Crawford, aged 59 in 1964, who follows up […]

Jan, 08

The Saint’s Return [The Saint’s Girl Friday] *** (1953, Louis Hayward, Naomi Chance, Sydney Tafler, Charles Victor, Harold Lang, Diana Dors, Jane Carr) – Classic Movie Review 3,228

Hammer Films’ 1953 British crime mystery thriller film The Saint’s Return is a very watchable revival, with Louis Hayward cast once again after a 15-year gap as Simon Templar.  ‘When he hits London…blondes…bullets…and blackmail…set him […]

Jan, 04

The Saint’s Vacation *** (1941, Hugh Sinclair, Sally Gray, Cecil Parker, Arthur Macrae, Gordon McLeod, Leueen MacGrath, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 3226

Hugh Sinclair takes over the halo from George Sanders as Simon Templar in the seventh of the RKO Pictures’ The Saint series, co-written by original author Leslie Charteris and produced and filmed in the UK. […]

Jan, 04

The Saint Takes Over *** (1940, George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale, Paul Guilfoyle, Morgan Conway) – Classic Movie Review 3,224

The twisty and noirish 1940 crime mystery thriller film The Saint Takes Over is the fifth in the RKO Saint series, the fourth for George Sanders as Simon Templar, aka The Saint, and the first […]

Jan, 03

The Saint’s Double Trouble *** (1940, George Sanders, Helene Reynolds, Jonathan Hale, Bela Lugosi, Donald MacBride, John F Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 3223

Director Jack Hively’s 1940 crime thriller The Saint’s Double Trouble is the fourth episode of the RKO Pictures The Saint series, and the third for George Sanders as Simon Templar, aka The Saint, all entirely […]

Jan, 03

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