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Cedric Hardwicke stars as the real-life French-Jewish officer Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who is accused and convicted of spying in 1890s France, after German staff had forged evidence to convict him, ending up doing life on […]
Co-writer/ director Hubert Cornfield’s intelligent, character-driven 1969 crime movie is brisk, complex and involving. Unfairly, it ignominiously went out as the lesser half of a double bill. Although it is an American film, it is shot in Technicolor in […]
Bela Lugosi stars as a professor of criminology who runs a soup kitchen mission during the daytime and stalks the streets at dark, killing folks and stashing the corpses in his cellar. Professor Brenner (aka Karl […]
Author Frances Marion won the Academy Award for writing the story and dialogue (Best Writing Achievement) of director George Hill’s convincing, mould-forming 1930 prison drama. Sound director Douglas Shearer also won the first Academy Award […]
Albert Finney repeats his London stage performance as ageing Chicago gangster Harold, who is mixed up with two weird brothers Treat and Philip (Matthew Modine and Kevin Anderson), in director Alan J Pakula’s 1987 riveting […]
Director Harry Lachman’s suspenseful and classy 1936 Columbia B-movie crime thriller stars Ralph Bellamy as disfigured notorious criminal ‘Slick’ Rawley, who has plastic surgery to change his identity. He loses his memory and decides to help […]
Director Anatole Litvak’s 1938 black comedy gangster movie is based on the play by Barré Lyndon and stars Edward G Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor, Allen Jenkins and Donald Crisp. Robinson enjoys himself greatly in […]