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Rogue Cop **** (1954, Robert Taylor, George Raft, Janet Leigh, Steve Forrest, Anne Francis) – Classic Movie Review 7265

Director Roy Rowland’s 1954 black and white Rogue Cop is a commendably taut, tough film noir thriller with a neat story and an ideal, well deployed cast. John F Seitz was Oscar nominated for Best Cinematography, […]

Jul, 08

How to Steal the World ** (1968, Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Barry Sullivan, Eleanor Parker, Leslie Nielsen, Leo G Carroll, Tony Bill, Albert Paulsen, Hugh Marlowe, Dan O’Herlihy) – Classic Movie Review 6,926

The Men from U.N.C.L.E. Robert Vaughn and David McCallum are back in 1968 in another engagingly wacky Sixties action adventure, reprising their roles as agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin for the last time in […]

Apr, 15

Shooters * (2002, Adrian Dunbar, Louis Dempsey, Andrew Howard, Gerard Butler, Jason Hughes, Ioan Gruffudd, Matthew Rhys) – Classic Movie Review 6213

There is a great cast to give a lift to directors Glenn Durfort and Colin Teague’s grim, rough-hewn, and typically reprehensibly violent 2002 British-made gangster thriller movie, in which an Irish gang leader becomes embroiled […]

Nov, 08

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold * (1986, Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, James Earl Jones, Henry Silva) – Classic Movie Review 5637

Director Gary Nelson’s  lacklustre, low-budget 1986 sequel to 1985’s King Solomon’s Mines brings Richard Chamberlain back as H Rider Haggard’s hero Allan Quatermain, this time off to Africa to find his vanished brother Robeson Quatermain (Martin […]

Jun, 19

The Spoilers **½ (1955, Anne Baxter, Jeff Chandler, Rory Calhoun, Barbara Britton) – Classic Movie Review 5524

The two clashing 1899 Alaska adventurers fight for gold and a gal for the fifth time in director Jesse Hibbs’s routine and lesser but still enjoyable 1955 film version of the novel by Rex Beach. […]

May, 30

The Last Embrace *** (1979, Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin, Sam Levene, John Glover, Charles Napier, Christopher Walken) – Classic Movie Review 5358

‘They murdered his wife. His friends deserted him. His associates betrayed him. He thinks someone is trying to kill him. He’s dead right.’ Director Jonathan Demme’s artificial, but often edge-of-seat 1979 Alfred Hitchcock-style neo noir […]

Apr, 28

The Virginian **** (1929, Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, Mary Brian, Richard Arlen, Helen Ware, Chester Conklin, E H Calvert, Eugene Palette) – Classic Movie Review 4879

An archetypal Western tale about a posse hanging a ranch foreman’s buddy is dusted off as Gary Cooper’s first sound film, which sent him to the top in Hollywood, there to stay for 30 years. […]

Jan, 11

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