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Director Roy William Neill’s dastardly 1944 whodunit mystery thriller film The Scarlet Claw is the sixth and arguably the finest of Basil Rathbone’s 12 Sherlock Holmes updated films at Universal Pictures studios. Rathbone and Nigel […]
The spirited 1945 Sherlock Holmes mystery film The Woman in Green is a screen original story by Bertram Millhauser. Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce again show real class as Holmes and Dr Watson. Henry Daniell […]
British director Peter Yates’s 1968 thriller is the best-ever car chase movie as well as (arguably) the quintessential Steve McQueen movie. There’s a riveting police detective yarn too, in which one San Francisco cop is the […]
Philip Seymour Hoffman won the 2006 Best Actor Oscar for his eye-catching, brio performance as the destructively selfish gay author Truman Capote in director Bennett Miller’s gruelling, disturbing and depressing story of the five years Capote spent on […]
Stanley Kubrick’s short second feature film from 1955 is only 67 minutes long, but Killer’s Kiss provides plenty of evidence of the budding director’s talent. A punchy, stylish, inventively made, film noir action thriller, it […]
The Coen Brothers’ sensational, sizzling 2007 crime thriller film No Country for Old Men won four Oscars, was their biggest hit so far, and was undoubtedly the movie of the year. Certainly the Academy Award […]
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 silent film version of the famous 1913 novel The Lodger by Mrs Marie Belloc Lowndes is his first thriller, establishing him as a star name director. The Lodger (A Story of the […]