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The moderately successful if dour 1953 British crime thriller film Escape by Night stars Sid James as Gino Rossi, an Italian sex-racket crime boss on the run. Writer-director John Gilling’s 1953 British black and white […]
Cult director Joseph H Lewis’s deservedly admired 1949 American Columbia Pictures black and white film noir gangster drama The Undercover Man tells the story of undercover men trying to end the US organised crime activities of a […]
Writer-director J K Amalou’s 1996 British crime gangster black comedy film Hard Men is an appalling British ‘homage’ to Quentin Tarantino, in which a vicious London gangland crime boss Pops Den (played by former real-life hard man “Mad” Frankie […]
Nick Nolte gives a spellbinding performance as a raging New York cop called Mike Brennan under investigation by nice young assistant district attorney Al Reilly (Timothy Hutton) for killing a Hispanic drug dealer in writer-director […]
Director Don Siegel’s taut, tough-toned and witty 1958 B-movie film noir police procedural crime thriller The Lineup, a big-screen version of the hit 1954-60 TV series The Lineup aka San Francisco Beat, is a credit […]
Director Roy Rowland’s 1954 black and white Rogue Cop is a commendably taut, tough film noir thriller with a neat story and an ideal, well deployed cast. John F Seitz was Oscar nominated for Best Cinematography, […]
Debut writer-director Mark Herman’s fast and funny 1992 screwball comedy is amusingly written, briskly directed and feistily performed. Dudley Moore stars in this farcical comedy about three guests with similar names staying at a Venice […]