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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

He Rides Tall ** (1964, Tony Young, Dan Duryea, Jo Morrow, Madlyn Rhue, R G Armstrong) – Classic Movie Review 7987

Director R G Springsteen’s gutsy, keeping-it-real 1964 B-movie Western He Rides Tall, with its heavy ‘man’s-gotta-do what a man’s-gotta-do’ message and a robust Dan Duryea star turn, was considered tough and sadistic in its day. […]

Jan, 06

The Victors ** (1963, George Peppard, George Hamilton, Albert Finney, Melina Mercouri, Eli Wallach, Vince Edwards, Jeanne Moreau, Elke Sommer, Senta Berger, Peter Fonda, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet) – Classic Movie Review 7063

Unfortunately, you expect more from this earnest, massive 1963 Anglo-American anti-war epic than either the writer-producer-director Carl Foreman or his big all-star team of 15 leading American and European players can deliver. The Victors follows a squad […]

May, 16

Aloma of the South Seas *** (1941, Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Lynne Overman, Philip Reed) – Classic Movie Review 6608

It’s just a sarong at twilight as the saronged lady Dorothy Lamour leads director Alfred Santell’s lavish but creaky 1941 reworking of Maurice Tourneur’s 1926 silent movie (with Gilda Gray, Percy Marmont and Warner Baxter), mixing adventure and […]

Jan, 26

Charlie Chan at the Opera **** (1936, Warner Oland, Boris Karloff, Keye Luke) – Classic Movie Review 5614

‘A fiendish killer lurks at the opera! Weird! Thrilling! The Master Minds of Crime Match Wits Against Each Other!’ Sounds good, doesn’t it? And director H Bruce Humberstone’s 1936 thriller is one of the best […]

Jun, 15

‘C’-Man *** (1949, Dean Jagger, John Carradine, Harry Landers) – Classic Movie Review 5265

Dean Jagger stars as US Customs Department Agent Cliff Holden, who is in hot pursuit of the thieving gem-runners who have murdered his buddy co-worker, in producer-director Joseph Lerner’s breezy, tough-edged, quick-moving realist 1949 B-movie […]

Apr, 07

Sid and Nancy **** (1986, Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman) – Classic Movie Review 4098

Alex Cox co-writes (with Abbe Wool) and directs Sid and Nancy (1986), an exceptionally powerful and exciting punk rock cult classic about the life of Sid Vicious, bassist with the British punk rock band the Sex […]

Jul, 29

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