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Night Falls on Manhattan **** (1996, Andy García, Richard Dreyfuss, Lena Olin, Ian Holm, James Gandolfini, Ron Leibman) – Classic Movie Review 6042

Sidney Lumet is on fine form with the excellent 1996 crime thriller film Night Falls on Manhattan starring Andy Garcia as newly elected District Attorney Sean Casey, keen to eradicate police corruption. Writer-director Sidney Lumet is on […]

Sep, 24

Mr Klein [Monsieur Klein] **** (1976, Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon, Michel Lonsdale, Louis Seigner, Juliet Berto, Francine Bergé) – Classic Movie Review 5837

Alain Delon is excellent as Monsieur Robert Klein in director Joseph Losey’s complex and fascinating 1976 mystery drama film Mr Klein, which follows a case of confused identity in Vichy France in 1942. Alain Delon […]

Jul, 31

How to Steal a Million *** (1966, Audrey Hepburn, Peter O’Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith, Charles Boyer) – Classic Movie Review 5,682  

Peter O’Toole and Audrey Hepburn make a lovely couple and sail effortlessly though the chic and stylish 1966 American heist comedy caper film How to Steal a Million.  ‘Meet a Couple of Smart Operators Who Give a […]

Jun, 28

Phantom of Chinatown *** (1940, Keye Luke, Lotus Long, Grant Withers) – Classic Movie Review 5610

Following Doomed to Die (1940), Boris Karloff gives up his Mr Wong role for the sixth and last of the Monogram Pictures series based on the work of Hugh Wiley. Grant Withers, however, returns as police Captain Street of the […]

Jun, 14

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde * (1953, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff, Reginald Denny, Craig Stevens, Helen Westcott) – Classic Movie Review 5590

Director Charles Lamont’s silly 1953 Universal monsters comedy chiller puts Boris Karloff back together with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello after their success with Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff in 1949. Reginald Denny also […]

Jun, 12

Dick Tracy ***½ (1990, Warren Beatty, Charlie Korsmo, Glenne Headly, Madonna, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman) – Classic Movie Review 5568

Producer/ director/ star Warren Beatty’s blockbuster comic strip parody Dick Tracy, based on the comic strip characters created by Chester Gould, was 1990’s most-hyped movie. In a huge star turn, Beatty impersonates the Thirties cartoon-strip […]

Jun, 10

In the Name of the Father **** (1993, Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson, John Lynch, Corin Redgrave, Mark Sheppard) – Classic Movie Review 5543

Director Jim Sheridan’s 1993 film was Oscar nominated as Best Picture and rivetingly tells the story of the Guildford Four, young Irish people released after 12 years’ wrongful imprisonment after the IRA terrorist bombings of […]

Jun, 03

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