Classic Film Freak

A disgruntled CIA man decides to take revenge on his boss and expose the transgressions of the agency. The 1980s was a time of generally weak films for Walter Matthau.  Behind him were two of hi...

https://www.classicfilmfreak.com/2020/10/08/hopscotch-1980-starring-walter-matthau-glenda-jackson-and-ned-beatty/

Two enemies call a truce so, together, along with a drunken explosives expert, a born thief and an Indian, they can rob an armored wagon. Although they could not have known it at the time, for Jo...

https://www.classicfilmfreak.com/2020/08/13/the-war-wagon-1967-starring-kirk-douglas-john-wayne-and-howard-keel/

A proficient grave robber provides freshly exhumed corpses—or recently murdered bystanders, if necessary—to a medical school professor until things go awry for both. Although he is best known...

https://www.classicfilmfreak.com/2020/07/30/the-body-snatcher-1945-starring-boris-karloff-henry-daniell-and-bela-lugosi/

An unusual number of operations ending in patient comas at a large metropolitan hospital arouse the suspicions of a surgical resident, whose concerns aren’t at first taken seriously. No doubt a...

https://www.classicfilmfreak.com/2020/07/21/coma-1978-starring-genevieve-bujold-michael-douglas-and-richard-widmark/

A boy’s love for a pet fawn risks the prosperity of a backwoods family living in the wilds of post-Civil War north Florida. Forty years had largely dimmed my memory since last seeing The Yearl...

https://www.classicfilmfreak.com/2020/07/08/the-yearling-1946-starring-gregory-peck-jane-wyman-and-claude-jarman-jr/

A boy who cried “wolf” several times when there was no wolf isn’t believed when he witnesses a real murder. It’s possible, one can conjecture, that The Window might not have ever been r...

https://www.classicfilmfreak.com/2020/05/30/the-window-1949-starring-bobby-driscoll-arthur-kennedy-and-barbara-hale/

Released four years ago, the set is, now, an appropriate memorial to the actor. With the passing, in early February, of one of the last, and biggest, stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age, eight of K...

https://www.classicfilmfreak.com/2020/02/13/kirk-douglas-the-centennial-collection-2016-box-set-of-eight-of-the-stars-films/

With a woman living two lives, her life could go either way. In Fire Over England (1936), his first film of note—a distinction nothing to do with him but to the first-ever pairing of screen l...

https://www.classicfilmfreak.com/2019/12/05/caught-1949-starring-james-mason-barbara-bel-geddes-and-robert-ryan/

The games people play can lead to . . . murder! Clinton Green, a multi-millionaire Hollywood producer who had, a year before, lost his wife, Sheila, in a hit-and-run accident, invites six of his ...

https://www.classicfilmfreak.com/2019/11/14/the-last-of-sheila-1973-starring-james-coburn-james-mason-dyan-cannon/

They come from another world to occupy bodies in this world! It was such an original idea for a movie, alien seed pods taking possession of people, body and soul, with only two people aware of wh...

https://www.classicfilmfreak.com/2019/10/31/invasion-of-the-body-snatchers-1956-starring-kevin-mccarthy-dana-wynter-and-larry-gates/