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The 1963 black and white Egypt jewel treasures heist caper thriller film Cairo is one of MGM’s three attempted remakes of the 1950 classic The Asphalt Jungle, with the supposedly ‘perfect’ robbery this time effectively […]
Director John Landis’s dark and dangerous 1985 comedy thriller Into the Night stars Jeff Goldblum as wimpish Los Angeles aviation designer Ed Okin, who cannot sleep, so he drives aimlessly around LA and ends up in the parking garage […]
Co-writer/ director Raoul Walsh’s 1936 Paramount Pictures black and white comedy mystery thriller Big Brown Eyes effectively teams charismatic stars Cary Grant and Joan Bennett. Police detective sergeant Danny Barr (Grant) and his girlfriend, wacky manicurist-reporter […]
Director Henry Hathaway’s 1934 Paramount comedy stars Gary Cooper as Jerry Day, a confidence trickster and swindling thief who prefers the footloose and fancy free life. But after his second marriage to Toni (Carole Lombard) […]
Director Clarence Brown’s entertaining 1941 MGM wartime comedy crime adventure stars a great vintage line-up in Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, Peter Lorre, Reginald Owen and Jessie Ralph. Gable plays jewel thief Gerald Meldrick and Russell plays sophisticated […]
‘LOVE WAS HER PRECIOUS LOOT!’ Marlene Dietrich stars in the 1936 American film Desire as cultivated sultry European gem thief Madeleine de Beaupré and she is paired with Gary Cooper as simple, down-home American automobile […]
Writer-director Michael Mann’s intriguing and involving 1981 neo-noir heist thriller Thief is his cinema début as director after the TV movie The Jericho Mile in 1979. It showcases a rich and riveting James Caan performance […]