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Director Peter Yates’s 1989 action crime thriller An Innocent Man stars Tom Selleck as the innocent man Jimmie Rainwood, framed for drugs by two crooked cops, who finds himself in jail, where the going gets even tougher, […]
Director Mark Stevens’s routine, semi-tough 1954 film noir thriller Cry Vengeance also stars Stevens as violent ex-cop Vic Barron, who hunts the villain, apparently Tino Morelli (Douglas Kennedy), who framed him and put him in […]
Director Claude Chabrol’s 1972 black comedy Docteur Popaul [Scoundrel in White] [High Heels] stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as a medic called Dr Paul Simay, who marries the plain, handicapped Christine Dupont (Mia Farrow), takes over her […]
Director Elio Petri’s 1965 Italian movie The Tenth Victim [La Decima Vittima] is a fascinating, bizarre Sixties sci-fi action drama with a darkly comic undertone about a future society that offers prizes to licensed killers […]
Director John Ford’s 1930 comedy crime drama Up the River is an amusing junior-league Ford prison comedy, with the main interest less in the original story by Maurine Dallas Watkins and the script than in the teaming of […]
Writer-director Maxwell Shane’s 1955 The Naked Street is a rather limp and clichéd crime-romance film noir melodrama starring Farley Granger as Nicky Bradna, a small-time hood involved in ugly crimes and a doomed romance with Rosalie […]
Director Andrei Konchalovsky’s appealing 1989 Tango & Cash teams Sylvester Stallone as Lieutenant Raymond Tango with Kurt Russell Stallone as Lieutenant Gabriel Cash, LA’s top two rival cops. Rivals they may be, but the mismatched […]