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- Race Street **** (1948, George Raft, Marilyn Maxwell, William Bendix, Frank Faylen, Harry Morgan, Gale Robbins) – Classic Movie Review 13,967
- Swamp Fire ** (1946, Johnny Weissmuller, Buster Crabbe, Virginia Grey, Carol Thurston) – Classic Movie Review 13,966
- Dangerous Partners *** (1945, James Craig, Signe Hasso, Edmund Gwenn, Audrey Totter, Warner Anderson, Felix Bressart, Mabel Paige, John Warburton, Henry O’Neill, Grant Withers) – Classic Movie Review 13,965
- A Dangerous Profession **** (1949, George Raft, Ella Raines, Pat O’Brien, Jim Backus, Bill Williams, Roland Winters) – Classic Movie Review 13,964
- Bad Girl **** (1931, Sally Eilers, James Dunn, Minna Gombell, William Pawley, Frank Darien) – Classic Movie Review 13,963
- Pick-Up *** (1933, Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, William Harrigan) – Classic Movie Review 13,962
- Mr Ace *** (1946, George Raft, Sylvia Sidney, Stanley Ridges, Sara Haden, Jerome Cowan, Sid Silvers) – Classic Movie Review 13,961
- Johnny Apollo ** (1940, Tyrone Power, Dorothy Lamour, Edward Arnold, Lloyd Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 13,960
- Nocturne **** (1946, George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston, Joseph Pevney, Myrna Dell, Edward Ashley, Walter Sande, Mabel Paige) – Classic Movie Review 13,959
- Cousins **** (1989, Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, Sean Young, William Petersen, Lloyd Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 13,958
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The Chamber ** (1996, Gene Hackman, Chris O’Donnell, Faye Dunaway, Robert Prosky, Harve Presnell) – Classic Movie Review 1006
Director James Foley’s 1996 legal thriller is another lacklustre adaptation from a John Grisham novel, saved by Gene Hackman’s impeccable performance as a racist bigoted bomber, Sam Cayhall, whose rookie lawyer grandson Adam Hall (Chris […]
The Pearl of Death **** (1944, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey, Evelyn Ankers, Miles Mander, Ian Wolfe, Mary Gordon, Rondo Hatton) – Classic Movie Review 992
The 1944 mystery thriller film The Pearl of Death is the seventh in Universal Pictures’ Sherlock Holmes series of 12 films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, and one of the most potent and satisfying. […]
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes **** (1939, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Ida Lupino, Alan Marshal, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 987
The 1939 mystery thriller film The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes hastily signs up Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce again as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson for a more than welcome sequel to their hit The […]
The Two Jakes **** (1990, Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe, Eli Wallach, Ruben Blades, Frederic Forrest, David Keith, Richard Farnsworth, Tracey Walter) – Classic Movie Review 938
In the third of his trio of movies as director, Jack Nicholson films in 1990 his buddy Robert Towne’s screenplay The Two Jakes for their belated sequel to Chinatown (1974). In the third of his […]
The Green Man ***** (1956, Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Jill Adams, Dora Bryan, Raymond Huntley, Eileen Moore) – Classic Movie Review 897
It’s impossible to oversell the vintage 1956 British black and white film The Green Man: it’s wonderful vintage British black comedy stuff, a true comic gem, with adorable performers on their best form. Directors Robert […]
High Heels [Tacones lejanos] **** (1991, Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes, Miguel Bosé) – Classic Movie Review 887
Pedro Almodóvar comes up the weirdest and most contrived of plots for his 1991 movie High Heels (Tacones Lejanos) starring Victoria Abril and Marisa Paredes. ‘I hated you sometimes, but even on those times I […]
Dolores Claiborne **** (1995, Kathy Bates, Christopher Plummer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judy Parfitt, David Strathairn, Eric Bogosian, John C Reilly) – Classic Movie Review 886
Director Taylor Hackford employs the admirable Kathy Bates for another ace Stephen King adaptation, after her Oscar-winning performance in Misery (1990). Bates kicks this 1995 movie into top gear as Dolores Claiborne, a Maine matron […]