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The slick and satisfying little 1962 British crime thriller film Out of the Fog stars David Sumner, Susan Travers, James Hayter and John Arnatt in a murder mystery, a serial killer story and a police […]
Based on a novel by Sylvia Tate, director Norman Taurog’s 1957 crime comedy The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown is an interesting but tasteless comedy version of No Orchids for Miss Blandish, in which Jane Russell plays […]
‘RIPPED BY RAW VIOLENCE!’ The Oklahoma Woman (1956) is the third of Roger Corman’s interesting series of four low-budget Fifties Westerns. Richard Denning stars the ex-convict gunslinger Steve Ward, who returns to Oklahoma after six […]
‘Kiss for Kiss! Bullet for Bullet!’ Five Guns West (1955) is notable as Roger Corman’s debut film as director, and the first of his four Fifties Westerns. It stars John Lund, Dorothy Malone, Mike Connors […]
Director Frank Tuttle’s 1955 thriller Hell on Frisco Bay tells the hard-boiled police story of ex-cop Steve Rollins (Alan Ladd), framed for manslaughter, who is released on parole after five years in prison and wants […]
Delightfully oddball characters, situations and dialogue are orchestrated endearingly by writer-director Hal Hartley in his auspicious 1989 début film The Unbelievable Truth. It is a rewarding, darkly satirical comedy of American small-town life about paroled […]
Director Howard Zieff’s 1972 this amusing and delightful, zany, darkly comic lowlife crime thriller stars James Caan as ex-con Dick Kanipsia, who chase after a stash of cash with a charming collection of crazies – […]