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Director John Baxter’s 1933 film Doss House is a surprising British Thirties social-conscience crime thriller melodrama movie, starring Frank Cellier, Arnold Bell and Herbert Franklyn. It gains marks for its realistic doss-house background and for […]
RKO’s 1946 thriller film San Quentin features Raymond Burr, aged 29, in his credited film début as ruthless killer Jeff Torrance. Director Gordon M Douglas’s 1946 RKO Radio Pictures thriller film San Quentin features Raymond […]
Producer-director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1961 Eastman Color adventure drama The Devil at 4 O’Clock is based on a novel by Max Catto and stars Spencer Tracy as hard-drinking priest Father Matthew Doonan, who enlists the reluctant […]
The honest, good-hearted 1957 American troubled youth crime drama film The Young Don’t Cry stars Sal Mineo as an orphanage teenager who gets involved with a chain-gang convict (James Whitmore). Director Alfred L Werker’s downbeat […]
Director Daniel Mann’s 1972 Western movie The Revengers stars William Holden and Ernest Borgnine, who reassemble from the 1969 The Wild Bunch for another in the long line of Westerns that tries to cash in […]
Writer-director Joel Hershman’s Greenfingers stars Clive Owen as prisoner Colin Briggs, who is moved to an open jail, where his friendship with a dying Irish convict, Fergus Wilks (David Kelly), leads to a passion for […]
Director Jacques Becker’s gritty 1960 French crime thriller / drama Le Trou [The Hole] tells a grim but gripping and intelligent escape story, based on a novel by José Giovanni but taken from real life, […]