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Tight Spot **** (1955, Ginger Rogers, Edward G Robinson, Brian Keith, Lorne Greene) – Classic Movie Review 7720

Director Phil Karlson’s 1955 crime thriller Tight Spot stars Ginger Rogers, Edward G Robinson and Brian Keith, and is a vintage film noir treat. It is based on Leonard Kantor’s play Dead Pigeon, which only […]

Oct, 29

Shield for Murder *** (1954, Edmond O’Brien, John Agar, Marla English) – Classic Movie Review 7269

Edmond O’Brien co-directs and stars in the tough, involving and engrossing 1954 film noir crime film Shield for Murder as a crooked police detective. It is based on the novel of the same name by William P McGivern. Edmond O’Brien plays […]

Jul, 08

Shoah ***** (1985, Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaïdl, Itzhak Dugin, Richard Glazar, Paula Biren, Helena Pietyra, Pan Filipowicz, Pan Falborski)- Classic Movie Review 7255

French writer-director Claude Lanzmann’s exhaustive 1985 nine-hour, 26-minute documentary on the holocaust, Shoah, is put together by director Lanzmann from more than 350 hours of filmed interviews with survivors, guards and witnesses. Shoah is the Hebrew […]

Jul, 06

The High Bright Sun [McGuire, Go Home!] ** (1965, Dirk Bogarde, George Chakiris, Susan Strasberg) – Classic Movie Review 6807

Dirk Bogarde is on commanding form in director Ralph Thomas’s otherwise ordinary 1965 adventure movie as Major McGuire, an intelligence officer in the British Army occupying Cyprus in the Fifties (it is 1957) during Cyprus’s war […]

Mar, 15

The Secret Bride * (1934, Barbara Stanwyck, Warren William, Glenda Farrell) – Classic Movie Review 6774

Director William Dieterle’s 1935 Warner Bros drama is interesting and short (at 64 minutes) but wordy, plodding and slow, and very disappointing considering the talent involved. The talky screenplay by Tom Buckingham, F Hugh Herbert and […]

Mar, 07

Summer Storm **** (1944, George Sanders, Linda Darnell, Edward Everett Horton, Anna Lee) – Classic Movie Review 6303

‘The FLASH of a Knife… The SCREAM of a Girl… The WRECK of a Man…’ Hollywood goes Russian in German-born director Douglas Sirk’s really rather splendid 1944 film noir-style crime drama adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s […]

Nov, 24

See No Evil, Hear No Evil ** (1989, Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Joan Severance) – Classic Movie Review 4826

The brilliantly talented funnymen movie star partners Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor are re-teamed for director Arthur Hiller’s wacky 1989 comedy thriller about a deaf man, Dave (Wilder), and a blind man, Wally (Pryor), who […]

Dec, 30

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