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Posts Tagged "the Mob"
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Buddy, Buddy *** (1981, Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon) – Classic Movie Review 1457
Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon’s fifth movie together and their last till Grumpy Old Men in 1993 is director Billy Wilder’s final film from 1981. Alas it wasn’t the hoped-for classic, and Wilder’s brilliant career […]
The Grifters ***** (1990, Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening) – Classic Movie Review 1354
Director Stephen Frears’s hardboiled 1990 thriller takes no prisoners and does 100 per cent justice to its rightly revered source author Jim Thompson. It finds Anjelica Huston on scalding form as Lilly Dillon, a small-time […]
Gloria ***** (1980, Gena Rowlands, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen, John Adames) – Classic Movie Review 1,203
Gena Rowlands is superb as Gloria Swenson, a middle-aged Bronx blonde who sets out to protect a young Puerto Rican boy called Phil Dawn (John Adames) by trying to beat the Mob at their own […]
The Narrow Margin ***** (1952, Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Don Beddoe) – Classic Movie Review 994
Director Richard Fleischer’s brilliant, deservedly celebrated 1952 B-movie film noir crime thriller The Narrow Margin is the best of its kind. Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor and Jacqueline White relish their moments of glory. This fast-paced, […]
Donnie Brasco **** (1997, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby, James Russo, Anne Heche, Zeljko Ivanek) – Classic Movie Review 217
This 1997 real-life gangster movie is a scintillating, epic look at the New York Mafia in 1978, based by screenwriter Paul Attanasio on a true-story book by Joseph D Pistone and Richard Woodley. An ideally […]