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Johnny Eager *** (1942, Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Edward Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 6707

Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1942 MGM movie is a half-way good gangster picture with a convincing atmosphere and a commendably taut pace, in which nice girl Lisbeth Bard (Lana Turner) falls for vicious mobster Johnny Eager […]

Feb, 18

Die, Monster, Die! [Monster of Terror] ** (1965, Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Freda Jackson, Suzan Farmer) – Classic Movie Review 6145

‘It COULD happen! It MAY happen! It MIGHT happen! to YOU!’ Really? I don’t think so! Debut director Daniel Haller’s atmospheric and well acted but slow-moving horror movie is a loose adaptation of the H […]

Oct, 27

Dick Tracy vs Cueball **½ (1946, Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys, Dick Wessel, Lyle Latell) – Classic Movie Review 5592

Following his debut in Dick Tracy (1945), Morgan Conway returns as Tracy in director Gordon M Douglas’s enjoyable, more than adequate low-budget crime thriller, the second in the RKO Radio Pictures series of four, with […]

Jun, 12

‘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

Midnight ***** (1939, Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor) – Classic Movie Review 5178

Director Mitchell Leisen’s delicious 1939 movie bon-bon is the very essence of sophisticated wit and polish. The first-rate cast sparkles as much as production designer Hans Dreier’s luminous sets of Paris. It may be the […]

Mar, 19

My Son, the Fanatic ***½ (1997, Om Puri, Rachel Griffiths, Akbar Kurtha, Stellan Skarsgård) – Classic Movie Review 4046

Director Udayan Prasad’s 1997 interesting, involving and carefully made drama is based on a novel by Hanif Kureishi, the screen-writer of My Beautiful Laundrette, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid and London Kills Me, who writes […]

Jul, 19

The Man Who Never Was **** (1956, Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Stephen Boyd, Laurence Naismith, Michael Hordern, André Morell, Geoffrey Keen) – Classic Movie Review 3773

Director Ronald Neame’s engaging 1956 British wartime espionage thriller film The Man Who Never Was precedes the similar-minded I Was Monty’s Double (1958) as a popular Fifties movie about a British World War Two attempt to […]

May, 25

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