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In Cold Blood ***** (1967, Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Jeff Corey, Paul Stewart, Will Geer) – Classic Movie Review 2874
Writer-director Richard Brooks’s gruelling 1967 movie version of Truman Capote’s 1966 bestselling true-crime ‘non-fiction novel’ about the brutal, senseless murder of a family in rural Kansas is extremely gripping, authentic and realistic, but also thankfully avoids […]
Un Flic [Dirty Money] **** (1972, Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Richard Crenna) – Classic Movie Review 2,821
Jean-Pierre Melville’s rousing, stylish 1972 French crime thriller Un Flic [Dirty Money] features an ideally cast Alain Delon as a rough cop (un flic) and Richard Crenna as a hoodlum, two tough guys involved in […]
The Great St Trinian’s Train Robbery ** (1966, George Cole, Frankie Howerd, Dora Bryan, Reg Varney) – Classic Movie Review 2,798
In the 1966 fourth episode of the series, The Great St Trinian’s Train Robbery, the school for scandal St Trinian’s is providing the cover for great train robbers. George Cole appears one last time as Flash Harry, […]
Rancho Notorious **** (1952, Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer) – Classic Movie Review 2598
Director Fritz Lang’s splendidly baroque and brooding 1952 Western tale of frontier revenge is lit up by a mesmerising, breathtakingly camp star turn from a smouldering Marlene Dietrich (still looking stunning at 50). She plays Altar […]
Gun Crazy ***** (1949, John Dall, Peggy Cummins, Berry Kroeger) – Classic Movie Review 2566
‘We go together, Laurie. I don’t know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.’ Director Joseph H Lewis’s 1949 film noir favourite stars John Dall as gun-loving Barton ‘Bart’ Tare, a World War Two […]
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford ****½ (2007, Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Sam Rockwell) – Classic Movie Review 2400
Casey Affleck gives a superbly snivelling performance as the 20-year-old rat-like coward Robert Ford, who has idolised the Missouri outlaw gang leader Jesse James since childhood. Director Andrew Dominik‘s 2007 movie takes its place as one […]
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, […]