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Scene of the Crime [Ladykiller] ** (1996, Ben Gazzara, Alex McArthur, Stephen Davies) – Classic Movie Review 9942

Ben Gazzara is excellent in director Terence H Winkless’s contrived, dark-toned but taut and highly watchable 1996 psychological thriller, Scene of the Crime [Ladykiller]. Despite being under investigation for a blunder that resulted in his […]

Jun, 20

In the Deep Woods ** (1992, Rosanna Arquette, Anthony Perkins, Will Patton) – Classic Movie Review 9737

Director Charles Correll’s 1992 TV movie In the Deep Woods is an eerie if rather unimaginative and tatty psycho-thriller, with a screenplay by Robert Nathan and Robert Rosenblum based on Nicholas Conde’s novel. It has […]

May, 09

The Couch *** (1962, Grant Williams, Shirley Knight, Onslow Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 9666

Producer-director Owen Crump’s 1962 film The Couch is a grisly suspense horror thriller with a screenplay by Robert Bloch (the author of Psycho) about a murderously inclined psychiatric patient (Grant Williams), who, instead of heeding […]

Apr, 23

The Spiral Staircase * (1975, Jacqueline Bisset, Christopher Plummer, John Phillip Law, Sam Wanamaker, Mildred Dunnock, Gayle Hunnicutt, Elaine Stritch) – Classic Movie Review 9,623

The 1975 British horror mystery thriller film The Spiral Staircase is a close but modernised and unhappy remake of the 1946 classic American chiller. Director Peter Collinson’s 1975 British horror mystery thriller The Spiral Staircase […]

Apr, 09

Inspector Maigret [Maigret tend un piège] [Maigret Sets a Trap] **** (1958, Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Olivier Hussenot, Jeanne Boitel, André Valmy, Lino Ventura, Jean Desailly) – Classic Movie Review 9543

Jean Gabin gives a tremendous performance as Georges Simenon’s famed pipe-smoking police inspector Maigret, investigating Jack the Ripper-type knife-murders of women in Paris’s seedy Montmartre. Director Jean Delannoy’s extremely satisfying, top-level 1958 French police thriller […]

Mar, 22

The Alphabet Murders [The ABC Murders] * (1965, Tony Randall, Robert Morley, Anita Ekberg) – Classic Movie Review 9029

Agatha Christie’s A1 vintage thriller novel The ABC Murders about a murderer apparently bumping people off alphabetically is infuriatingly played for broad and easy laughs by a miscast Tony Randall as Eurotec Hercule Poirot, and […]

Oct, 29

Docteur Petiot [Dr Petiot] **** (1990, Michel Serrault, Pierre Romans, Bérangère Bonvoisin) – Classic Movie Review 8732

This 1990 biographical crime drama film Dr Petiot is directed with immense vigour and confidence by director Christian de Chalonge, who conjures up stylised and beautifully photographed images, lensed by cinematographer Patrick Blossier. The intense […]

Jul, 19

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