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Director Rudolph Maté’s suspenseful and entertaining 1950 black and white Paramount Pictures crime drama film noir thriller Union Station is adapted from Thomas Walsh’s Edgar-winning novel Nightmare in Manhattan, and stars William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald, […]
Writer-director Ron Nyswaner’s inventive 1988 black comedy drama film The Prince of Pennsylvania stars Fred Ward, Keanu Reeves, Bonnie Bedelia, and Amy Madigan. Keanu Reeves plays Rupert Marshetta, an oddball misfit youngster in love with […]
Director Tom Kinnimont’s 2001 film The Enemy is a tense, fast-moving, old-style action thriller, based on a novel by Desmond Bagley and starring Luke Perry, Roger Moore, Olivia D’Abo, Horst Buchholz and Tom Conti. In […]
Director Lesley Selander’s 1950 RKO Pictures black and white hour-long Western film Rider from Tucson stars Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Veda Ann Borg, Douglas Fowley, Marshall Reed, Warren Phipps and Elaine Riley. Cowpunchers Dave Saunders […]
Director Michael Apted’s 1977 gangster film The Squeeze is a tough and gritty Seventies British action thriller aping an American genre, in which disgraced, alcoholic detective Jim Naboth (Stacy Keach), fired from the police force […]
There is a fine mix of the personal and the political in writer-director Bernardo Bertolucci’s distinguished, carefully studied inquiry into the use of terror by and against the state, and sharply relevant comment on the […]
Director William Wyler’s 1965 The Collector stars Terence Stamp as a dangerously withdrawn, deranged bank clerk and butterfly collector called Freddie Clegg, who decides to collect human specimens, and abducts a young woman art student […]