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The 1988 slapstick comedy film The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! stars the superbly droll Leslie Nielsen as crackpot cop Frank Drebin, who uncovers a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth II (impersonator […]
John Wayne stars as Detective Lieutenant Lon McQ, a Dirty Harry-style cop on the trail of the hood who killed his best friend and partner. This leads McQ to uncover corrupt elements in the police […]
Keanu Reeves stars as Detective Galban, a tormented New York cop who investigates the truth behind the life and death of his partner and close friend, Detective Cullen, murdered in a subway. The case reveals disturbing police […]
‘The Story of a Cop Who Used His Wife as Bait for a Killer!’ Budd Boetticher’s underrated 1956 hide-and-seek film noir crime thriller The Killer Is Loose stars Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming and Wendell Corey […]
It’s not much of an idea and not much of a title, but this splendid 2010 farce overcomes these obstacles in a near-total triumph. Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg form a great comedy double act […]
‘You’d think someone with the name Violet Throckmorton would have enough trouble in life without you adding to it!’ Director Ben Holmes’s 1938 crime thriller The Saint in New York is the first of eight […]
A tale of two Falcons: with so much going on, there is never a dull moment in The Falcon’s Brother. Director Stanley Logan’s 1942 black and white B-movie thriller The Falcon’s Brother again stars George […]