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Lucky Jordan * (1942, Alan Ladd, Helen Walker, Sheldon Leonard) – Classic Movie Review 10,105

Director Frank Tuttle’s 1942 crime drama Lucky Jordan is a shaky, unexciting vehicle for Alan Ladd as New York gangster Lucky Jordan, an artful dodger, crook and gambler. He is drafted into the army, deserts, and […]

Jul, 29

OSS [O.S.S.] **** (1946, Alan Ladd, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Patric Knowles) – Classic Movie Review 10,100

Director Irving Pichel’s 1946 film OSS stars Alan Ladd as John Martin, the leader of a secret American unit of the Office of Strategic Services, dropped behind enemy lines in World War Two France. The […]

Jul, 28

I See a Dark Stranger [The Adventuress] **** (1946, Deborah Kerr Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley) – Classic Movie Review 10,067

Director Frank Launder’s extremely enjoyable 1946 wartime British espionage thriller I See a Dark Stranger [The Adventuress] stars Deborah Kerr, who lights up the screen as Bridie Quilty, a young Irish woman whose hatred of […]

Jul, 21

Man on a String *** (1960, Ernest Borgnine, Kerwin Mathews, Colleen Dewhurst) – Classic Movie Review 9804

Director André De Toth’s 1960 Man on a String [Confessions of a Counterspy] stars Ernest Borgnine in a Hollywood-ised biography of Russian double agent/ counterspy Boris Morros.  Borgnine plays him as Boris Mitrov, a character loosely […]

May, 22

A Murder of Quality ** (1991, Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland, Glenda Jackson, Billie Whitelaw, David Threlfall, Ronald Pickup) – Classic Movie Review 9,661

George Smiley (Denholm Elliott) is asked by his wartime intelligence colleague, Ailsa Brimley (Glenda Jackson), to investigate a letter from a junior master’s wife at an English boys’ school, saying her husband is planning to […]

Apr, 22

Smiley’s People **** (1982, Alec Guinness, Eileen Atkins, Bill Paterson, Patrick Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 9660

Director Simon Langton’s 1982 TV mini-series Smiley’s People is the eagerly awaited sequel to the 1979 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, which this time has a surprisingly thin plot (at least for this running time of […]

Apr, 21

Ever in My Heart **** (1933, Barbara Stanwyck, Otto Kruger, Ralph Bellamy) – Classic Movie Review 9652

Director Archie Mayo’s 1933 romantic drama Ever in My Heart finds Barbara Stanwyck on top tragic form as Mary Archer, who marries foreign – German! – academic Hugo Wilbrandt (Otto Kruger) pre-World War One. Hugo […]

Apr, 19

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