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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 […]
Director John Badham’s tough 1987 police comedy thriller adventure Stakeout is fast, fizzy and funny, with Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez starring as eager Seattle cop detective partners Chris Lecce and Bill Remiers, who are […]