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The 1948 British film noir thriller The Small Voice [Hideout] is based on a 1940 novel by Robert Westerby, and stars James Donald, Valerie Hobson and Howard Keel in his film debut. Director Fergus McDonell’s […]
The 1951 British crime drama B film The Quiet Woman is a tale of liquor smuggling and an escaped convict, set on the edge of bleak Romney Marsh, and stars Derek Bond, Jane Hylton and […]
Randolph Scott stars as the anti-hero, escaped convict Jim Carey, in the swift, simple, very familiarly themed 1949 Western film The Walking Hills, with nicely measured performances and capable handling from cowboy movie expert John […]
Charles Chaplin’s 1923 four-reel silent comedy film The Pilgrim stars Chaplin as The Pilgrim, an escaped convict who snatches a swimming minister’s clothes to replace his prison uniform. Writer/ producer/ director Charles Chaplin’s 1923 four-reel […]
‘All The Terror Of A ‘Killer Hunt’… All The Fury Of The Old West… All The Cold-Steel Courage Of One-Man Law!’ Director Edward L Cahn’s low-budget 1961 black and white Western film Gun Street stars […]
French director André Téchiné’s 1986 drama Scene of the Crime [Le Lieu du Crime] [Le Crime] is a dour, sluggish and old-fashioned film about a beautiful cafe owner called Lili Ravenel (Catherine Deneuve) falling for […]
Producer-director Clint Eastwood’s A Perfect World (1993) is well made and decently paced as a crime thriller entertainment, though it is not as exciting or evocative as the similar Hunted (1952), Badlands, The Sugarland Express […]