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Another Man’s Poison **½ (1951, Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Emlyn Williams, Anthony Steel, Barbara Murray) – Classic Movie Review 10,345

‘She Had Everything You Could Give A Woman To Torment A Man!’ Bette Davis (fresh from her All About Eve triumph) and her Hollywood director Irving Rapper came to England to try their luck with […]

Sep, 24

The Ex-Mrs Bradford **** (1936, William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason, Eric Blore, Robert Armstrong, Lila Lee, Grant Mitchell, Ralph Morgan, Frank Reicher) – Classic Movie Review 6864

Director Stephen Roberts’s 1936 crime caper The Ex-Mrs Bradford is entertaining and often wittily written, with much of the urbane style and zesty handling of the best Thirties screwball comedy thrillers. It stars the strong team […]

Mar, 27

Seven Keys to Baldpate *** (1947, Phillip Terry, Jacqueline White, Eduardo Ciannelli, Margaret Lindsay, Arthur Shields, Jimmy Conlin, Tony Barrett, Richard Powers) – Classic Movie Review 5752

Director Lew Landers’s 1947 RKO Radio Pictures American mystery thriller film Seven Keys to Baldpate is the seventh attempt to film the Earl Derr Biggers novel, in an attractive movie that is quite tense, pacy […]

Jul, 13

The Mask of Dimitrios **** (1944, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Victor Francen, Steven Geray, George Tobias) – Classic Movie Review 3,876

Warner Bros’ hugely atmospheric and entertaining 1944 classic film noir mystery crime thriller film The Mask of Dimitrios again teams the era’s most iconic star character actors Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre.  Director Jean Negulesco’s […]

Jun, 16

The Bat *** (1959, Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 3591

The right stars in Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead crank up writer-director Crane Wilbur’s creaky 1959 version of the maniac-in-the-mansion stage chiller play The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Price plays Dr Malcolm Wells. Moorehead plays […]

Apr, 19

Swimming Pool **** (2003, Charlotte Rampling, Charles Dance, Ludivine Sagnier) – Classic Movie Review 3347

Charles Dance plays John Bosload, a British publisher who sends his prize mystery thriller author Sarah Morton (Charlotte Rampling) off from London to his French getaway home at Luberon, in the South of France. There the strange, […]

Feb, 12

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