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Robert Wise’s first-class 1948 RKO black-and-white psychological Western film noir stars Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston and Walter Brennan. It is a Martin Scorsese favourite. ‘The deadliest range war ever to EXPLODE on the screen!’ Director Robert Wise’s first-class […]
Director Allan Dwan’s 1955 Western film Tennessee’s Partner stars Ronald Reagan, John Payne, Rhonda Fleming and Colleen Gray. It is written by Graham Baker, D D Beauchamp, Milton Krims, and Teddi Sherman, with uncredited rewrites […]
Director Anthony Mann’s neat and well-plotted 1947 low-budget crime thriller Railroaded! stars John Ireland, Sheila Ryan, Hugh Beaumont, and Jane Randolph. It is an incisive, dour, dark-toned little 40s film-noir mobster tale with John Ireland […]
Film noir meets red scare… Director Robert Stevenson’s 1949 The Woman on Pier 13, a film noir crime drama that is otherwise known as I Married a Communist, is a forced, jingoistically patriotic propaganda piece about […]
Director John Cromwell’s primitive but interesting 1930 early talkie Western film The Texan stars Gary Cooper as a bandit called the Llano Kid who meets con man Thacker (Oscar Apfel), who persuades him to pretend […]
Broderick Crawford plays the talented FBI man Mr Ripley, who takes over investigating three cases, in the 1954 black and white film noir crime drama Down Three Dark Streets. Director Arnold Laven’s 1954 black and […]
Director Charles F Haas’s 1956 Western film Star in the Dust stars John Agar as Sheriff Bill Jorden, who finds a bunch of trouble when he is about to supervise the hanging of no-good killer […]