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Director Joseph Losey’s steadfast 1956 British noir thriller The Intimate Stranger is based on the novel Pay the Piper by Peter Howard [Howard Koch] and stars Richard Basehart as Reggie Wilson, a US film director […]
‘Mobsters invade teamsters!’ Co-writer/ director Ken Hughes’s robust and solid 1957 British black and white B-movie noir crime thriller drama film The Long Haul stars Victor Mature, Diana Dors and Patrick Allen. Hughes’s screenplay is […]
Director David MacDonald’s 1948 British noir thriller Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as a slum slut called Gwen Rawlings, who escapes from her young offenders’ prison, joins some crooks, kills a copper in a […]
The gritty 1961 realist British noir crime thriller film A Prize of Arms stars Stanley Baker as a dismissed army captain who plots revenge on the army by planning a daring heist of their payroll […]
‘There’s nothing worse than a man who makes you take off your self-respect and keep your clothes on.’ Anthony Kimmins’s 1947 British film noir thriller of Nigel Balchin’s distinguished novel Mine Own Executioner is deservedly […]
Michael Redgrave stars in Joseph Losey’s 1957 film noir Time without Pity as a hard-drinking dad, who, in the middle of a drying-out phase, comes to London to see if he can find out anything […]
Director J Lee Thompson’s 1956 British anti-capital punishment drama Yield to the Night stars the hitherto cheesecake star Diana Dors, who copes extremely creditably, indeed admirably, with a big serious dramatic role as Mary Price […]