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Le Doulos ***** (1962, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly) – Classic Movie Review 3802
Writer-director Jean-Pierre Melville’s shadowy, twisting and disturbing 1962 French neo noir gangster thriller Le Doulos is adapted from the novel by Pierre Lesou. It takes its power and modernity from being a profoundly cynical and […]
The Last Boy Scout *** (1991, Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans) – Classic Movie Review 3602
Director Tony Scott’s ultra-slick and exciting if repellently violent 1991 neo noir thriller / buddy-buddy action movie The Last Boy Scout stars Bruce Willis as cynical private eye Joe Hallenbeck who teams up with former football […]
Tom Horn ***½ (1979, Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth, Billy Green Bush, Slim Pickens, Peter Canon, Elisha Cook Jnr, Geoffrey Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 3,529
The 1979 Western film Tom Horn is notable as Steve McQueen’s penultimate movie and his final Western. It tells the tale of the last days of real-life Wyoming cavalry scout and bounty hunter Tom Horn, […]
Night and the City ***½ (1992, Robert De Niro, Jessica Lange, Cliff Gorman, Alan King, Jack Warden, Eli Wallach, Barry Primus) – Classic Movie Review 3372
Robert De Niro plays Harry Fabian, a cheating, fast-talking New York lawyer embroiled in shady boxing promotions, in Irwin Winkler’s classy 1992 updated remake of Jules Dassin’s 1950 film noir Night and the City. Robert […]
Nightmare **** (1964, David Knight, Moira Redmond, Jennie Linden) – Classic Movie Review 3306
Director Freddie Francis’s excellent 1964 psychological suspense thriller Nightmare stars the 25-year-old Jennie Linden as troubled young heiress Janet, a student at a private school. She is being brought up in the absence of her parents […]
The Conversation ***** (1974, Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Robert Duvall, Cindy Williams, Teri Garr, Harrison Ford) – Classic Movie Review 3,189
Francis Coppola’s tense and suspenseful 1974 thriller film The Conversation won the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or. It’s a tour-de-force for director Coppola and star Gene Hackman as a paranoid surveillance expert. Francis Ford Coppola’s […]
The Drowning Pool *** (1975, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Melanie Griffith, Tony Franciosa, Murray Hamilton, Richard Jaeckel, Coral Browne) – Classic Movie Review 2,935
The 1975 mystery thriller film The Drowning Pool stars Paul Newman, reprising his role as Ross MacDonald’s cynical private eye Lew Harper in the sequel to his 1966 hit Harper [The Moving Target]. Director Stuart […]