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Just Off Broadway *** (1942, Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver, Phil Silvers, Janis Carter) – Classic Movie Review 12,155
Phil Silvers plays annoying news photographer Roy Higgins, who gets in the way of private detective Michael Shayne, in Lloyd Nolan’s penultimate film appearance in the series. Director Herbert I Leeds’s 1942 black and white […]
My Gun Is Quick **½ (1957, Robert Bray, Whitney Blake, Donald Randolph, Pamela Duncan) – Classic Movie Review 11,394
The tough-nosed 1957 American film noir crime thriller My Gun Is Quick stars Robert Bray as Mickey Spillane’s hard-hitting private eye Mike Hammer. Directors George A White and Victor Saville [Phil Victor]’s 1957 American film […]
Blood Orange [Three Stops to Murder] *** (1953, Tom Conway, Naomi Chance, Mila Parély, Eric Pohlmann, Richard Wattis) – Classic Movie Review 11,088
Hammer Film Productions’ 1953 British crime drama film Blood Orange [Three Stops to Murder] features Tom Conway, Naomi Chance, Mila Parély, Eric Pohlmann and Richard Wattis in a case of theft and murder at a […]
The Lost Son ** (1999, Daniel Auteuil, Nastassja Kinski, Katrin Cartlidge) – Classic Movie Review 10,460
Director Chris Menges’s 1999 worrying, exploitative-feeling thriller The Lost Son is another really difficult, depressing movie, quality maybe but hard to like, with excellent French luminary Daniel Auteuil seeming lost and hollow speaking in English […]
Consenting Adults * (1992, Kevin Kline, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Kevin Spacey, Rebecca Miller) – Classic Movie Review 10,117
The 1992 mystery crime drama Consenting Adults is a disastrous, preposterous film noir thriller from Alan J Pakula (trying to follow up Presumed Innocent) in which Priscilla Parker (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio)’s husband Richard (Kevin Kline) falls […]
Decadence ** (1994, Joan Collins, Steven Berkoff, Christopher Biggins, Michael Winner, Marc Sinden) – Classic Movie Review 9649
The 1994 comedy drama Decadence is, as the poster says, ‘degenerate and disgusting’, but alas perhaps it is not also ‘deliciously funny’ as advertised, though it does have a certain oddball fascination, and its two […]
City Heat ** (1984, Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn, Rip Torn, Irene Cara, Richard Roundtree, Tony Lo Bianco) – Classic Movie Review 7566
Director Richard Benjamin’s 1984 period crime action comedy City Heat is a fairly damaging moment in the careers of Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood as both stars are forced to flounder desperately in a vacuum […]