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The 1951 British crime film Assassin for Hire is an unexpectedly decent little thriller starring Sydney Tafler as a London Soho contract killer led to believe wrongly that he has killed his brother. Director Michael McCarthy’s […]
Charles Jarrott’s Canadian 1982 film The Amateur. The 1982 film The Amateur stars John Savage, Christopher Plummer and Marthe Keller. The classy cast works hard but is largely at a loss in this muddled spy […]
‘By mistake they killed his wife and child – THAT was a hell of a mistake!’ Yes, that’s the spoiler alert advertising, but the mistake is when the Milan-based mafia hitman Tony Arzenta tells his bosses […]
Director Terry Bedford’s 1983 British crime film Slayground stars Peter Coyote as a criminal called Stone running from a hitman in this unattractive, violent Thorn EMI thriller based on a novel by Donald E Westlake […]
Michel Deville’s 1985 heady brew of a French crime mystery thriller film Death in a French Garden [Pèril en la Demeure] stars Anémone, Richard Bohringer, Nicole Garcia, Christophe Malavoy and Michel Piccoli. Director Michel Deville’s […]
Co-writer/ director Carl Colpaert’s 1991 film noir crime thriller Delusion stars Jim Metzler, Jennifer Rubin, Kyle Secor, Jerry Orbach, Tracey Walter and Robert Costanzo. Dodgy computer wizard George O’Brien (Metzler), a half-million dollar embezzler from […]
‘Assassins for Hire! Satisfaction Guaranteed! Killing is Big Business In the Hands of This Murder Machine!’ Director Jerry Thorpe’s 1970 film Company of Killers is a reasonably involving, well-made multi-faceted crime thriller, with plenty of […]