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Satan Met a Lady *** (1936, Bette Davis, Warren William, Alison Skipworth, Marie Wilson, Arthur Treacher, Winifred Shaw, Porter Hall) – Classic Movie Review 2466
When Warner Bros tried to re-release its pre-Code 1931 film of The Maltese Falcon early in 1936, the Production Code Office was censoring movies and it refused approval due to the film’s supposedly ‘lewd’ content. So, with censorship […]
The Killers **** (1964, Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Clu Gulager, Ronald Reagan, Claude Akins, Norman Fell) – Classic Movie Review 2394
Director Don Siegel’s complex and satisfying 1964 American neo noir crime film The Killers is the second Hollywood adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s 1927 short story, following the hit 1946 version The Killers. Siegel’s film was thought so tough, […]
The Town That Dreaded Sundown *** (2014, Addison Timlin, Veronica Cartwright, Anthony Anderson, Joshua Leonard, Gary Cole) – Movie Review
Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s masked killer movie is an effective, creepy, clever and stylish reworking and updating of an old horror favourite. It’s just a little bit different with its references to the 1976 original movie, setting it out […]
The Mark of Zorro **** (1974, Frank Langella, Ricardo Montalban, Gilbert Roland) – Classic Movie Review 2315
Director Don McDougall 1974 adventure is a strongly and ideally cast TV movie remake, with proper displays of athleticism and acting prowess from Frank Langella (as the swishing fop Don Diego de la Vega and […]
Psycho * (1998, Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Viggo Mortensen, Julianne Moore, William H Macy, Robert Forster, Philip Baker Hall) – Classic Movie Review 2301
Director Gus Van Sant’s 1998 remake of the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock classic is a pointless lost cause. Van Sant won the 1999 Razzie award for Worst Director and the film won the Razzie for Worst […]
The Ring *** (2002, Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox) – Classic Movie Review 2295
The 2002 horror movie The Ring stars Naomi Watts as journalist Rachel Keller who, while probing the death of her friend’s child, sees a videotape that brings death within a week to all who watch […]
Mrs Winterbourne *** (1996, Shirley MacLaine, Ricki Lake, Brendan Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 2259
Director Richard Benjamin’s 1996 comedy is a wayward and unwieldly but nevertheless still appealing fairy tale. It is a much-changed version of a Cornell Woolrich/William Irish novel (‘I Married a Dead Man’) and Barbara Stanwyck’s 1950 […]