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John Flynn’s routine but capable enough and entirely acceptable 1989 American prison action thriller film Lock Up stars Sylvester Stallone and Donald Sutherland. Director John Flynn’s routine but capable enough and entirely acceptable 1989 American […]
A band of ex-jailbirds get together to play jazz and commit crimes in the daft but mildly diverting 1962 musical crime film Band of Thieves starring clarinettist Acker Bilk. Director Peter Bezencenet’s 1962 British musical […]
Writer/director Charles Marquis Warren’s 1952 black and white Western film Hellgate stars Sterling Hayden as innocent war veteran Gil Hanley, who is wrongly sentenced as an American Civil War spy and sent to New Mexico’s […]
Director Andrew V McLaglen’s neat and nifty 1956 black and white Western B-movie Gun the Man Down stars James Arness, Robert J Wilke and Harry Carey Jr, but is most notable for Angie Dickinson’s first […]
Director Howard Hawks’s classic 1959 Western film Rio Bravo stars John Wayne as the southwest Texas small town lawman Sheriff John T Chance who prevents a killer (Claude Akins) with powerful friends arranged by his […]
‘A HANGING TREE AT ONE END OF TOWN… and a wanton girl in jeopardy at the other.’ Director George Sherman’s strong and sterling 1956 Columbia Pictures Technicolor Western film Reprisal! is based on the novel […]
Susan Hayward and Peter Finch have a thankless task to re-animate I Thank a Fool (1962). Director Robert Stevens’s 1962 British Metrocolor crime drama I Thank a Fool stars Peter Finch, Susan Hayward, Diane Cilento, Cyril […]