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Director George Seaton’s 1973 film Showdown is a generic, standard Western with solid if uninspired performances from Rock Hudson and Dean Martin as Chuck Jarvis and Billy Massey, boyhood friends estranged by their chosen careers […]
Producer-director Joseph Kane’s 1952 black and white film noir crime thriller Hoodlum Empire stars Brian Donlevy as upright, feisty Senator Bill Stephens, who battles nasty crime lord Nick Mansani (Luther Adler). John Russell plays Joe […]
The final curtain on Laurence Olivier’s film career was as Rudolf Hess in director Peter R Hunt’s below-par 1985 action movie Wild Geese II, in which Scott Glenn stars as adventurer John Haddad, who is […]
Though nothing spectacular or out of the ordinary, director Edwin L Marin’s 1949 movie Fighting Man of the Plains is a good, solid action Western. Frank Gruber writes the screenplay, based on his novel. Randolph […]
Director Phil Karlson’s excellent 1957 black and white film noir crime thriller The Brothers Rico is taken from a Georges Simenon novel called Les Frères Rico, and stars Richard Conte, James Darren, Dianne Foster, Kathryn […]
Director R G Springsteen’s slick, well-cast, violent 1964 B-movie Western Taggart is based on an intricately plotted Louis L’Amour novel, with a neat screenplay by Robert Creighton Williams, and boasts a nice, welcome cast of […]
Director Richard Quine’s 1954 film noir suspense thriller Pushover stars Fred MacMurray as Paul Sheridan, an undercover policeman on the case of a $200,000 bank robbery, who falls for blonde bombshell crook’s moll Lona McLane […]