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Assassin for Hire *** (1951, Sydney Tafler, Ronald Howard, Katharine Blake) – Classic Movie Review 12,783
The 1951 British crime film Assassin for Hire is an unexpectedly decent little thriller starring Sydney Tafler as a London Soho contract killer led to believe wrongly that he has killed his brother. Director Michael McCarthy’s […]
Death in a French Garden [Pèril en la Demeure] **** (1985, Anémone, Richard Bohringer, Nicole Garcia, Christophe Malavoy, Michel Piccoli, Anaïs Jeanneret) – Classic Movie Review 11,527
Michel Deville’s 1985 heady brew of a French crime mystery thriller film Death in a French Garden [Pèril en la Demeure] stars Anémone, Richard Bohringer, Nicole Garcia, Christophe Malavoy and Michel Piccoli. Director Michel Deville’s […]
Assassins ** (1995, Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, Julianne Moore) – Classic Movie Review 8166
Director Richard Donner’s 1995 action thriller Assassins stars Sylvester Stallone, who offers a monolithic, by-the-numbers performance as a jaded contract killer hitman called Robert Rath who plans to retire after one last job. But soon […]
The Disappearance *** (1977, Donald Sutherland, Francine Racette, David Hemmings, Christopher Plummer, John Hurt, David Warner, Peter Bowles, Virginia McKenna ) – Classic Movie Review 8160
Director Stuart Cooper’s 1977 Canadian neo noir thriller The Disappearance is a sleekly made and intriguing upmarket mystery, based on Derek Marlowe’s novel Echoes of Celandine, starring Donald Sutherland as a contract killer called Jay […]
Murder by Contract **** (1958, Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi) – Classic Movie Review 7,607
The outstanding 1958 B-movie film noir crime thriller Murder by Contract stars Vince Edwards, cast against type as an existentialist hit man. Martin Scorsese praised its ‘economy of style’ and named it ‘the film that […]
Collateral **** (2004, Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Irma P Hall) – Classic Movie Review 529
Director Michael (Heat, Ali, Manhunter) Mann’s very, very good 2004 existential crime thriller tantalisingly conjures up memories of European film noir art movies, especially those of Jean-Pierre Melville. It boasts a fine screenplay by Stuart […]
The Iceman **** (2012, Michael Shannon, Chris Evans, James Franco, Winona Ryder, David Schwimmer, John Ventimiglia, Robert Davi, Stephen Dorff, Ray Liotta) – Movie Review
The true-life story of an infamous contract killer of the 60s, 70s and 80s, The Iceman sears the screen with an agonising sharp slash. It recalls GoodFellas, not only because Ray Liotta stars again, and that’s […]
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