Saboteur (1942)
Robert Cummings (Dial M for Murder, Kings Row) stars as Barry Kane, a worker at a military aircraft production plant who ends up taking the rap mistakenly for the murder of his best friend/coworker...
1940s / Adventure / Mystery / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published August 23, 2011 · Last modified August 23, 2018
Robert Cummings (Dial M for Murder, Kings Row) stars as Barry Kane, a worker at a military aircraft production plant who ends up taking the rap mistakenly for the murder of his best friend/coworker...
1950s / Adventure / Comedy / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published February 16, 2008 · Last modified August 23, 2018
Although many people associate the famous scene of Cary Grant (To Catch a Thief, Suspicion) being chased out in farm country by a crop-duster with the movie as a whole, that stretch of film alone...
1980s / Mystery / Thriller / Uncategorized
by Vincent Leo · Published July 28, 2007 · Last modified February 16, 2023
In the early 1980s, filmmaker Curtis Hanson had just come off of directing Losin’ It, a teen comedy about a group of young American men who travel to Tijuana, Mexico to lose their virginity....
by Vincent Leo · Published December 16, 2001 · Last modified April 25, 2019
After his memorable turn in Little Shop of Horrors playing a dentist, Steve Martin plays another one in Novocaine, an oddly interesting yet ultimately unsatisfying comic-thriller. While the Hitchcockian plot and meandering storyline are too familiar...
I have mixed feelings about the Hong Kong stars that leave to make bigger budget films once they have make a name for themselves. Perhaps the producers and directors of the American/European films just...
1930s / Adventure / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published November 23, 1998 · Last modified December 3, 2019
Robert Donat plays Richard Hannay, a Canadian visiting London who travels to a local show. Gunshots erupt, and during the mad dash for the exits, he bumps into a woman (Mannheim), asking to go...
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Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.