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‘London Is Not Only Losing Her Soul To The Americans, She’s Selling It.’ Co-writer /director Danny Cannon’s 1993 unpersuasive British police thriller The Young Americans stars Harvey Keitel as hardened New York Police Detective John […]
The Britain’s Public Enemy Number One man himself, John McVicar, adapts his own book about his days as a dangerous criminal, his jailbreaks and his rehabilitation. Director Tom Clegg’s 1980 crime thriller McVicar is a […]
Director Basil Dearden’s 1943 The Bells Go Down has its appeal but it suffers by comparison with the same year’s Fires Were Started. You didn’t expect to see Tommy Trinder and James Mason in the […]
Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1956 British black and white noir crime thriller Tiger in the Smoke is based on Margery Allingham’s 1952 novel The Tiger in the Smoke, and stars Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Tony Wright, […]
Conrad Khan gives a startling, uber-confident turn as troubled 14-year-old London schoolboy Tyler, who becomes a drug courier for creepy older criminal Simon (Harris Dickinson), in writer-director Henry Blake’s equally confident and powerful feature debut […]
Director Tom Clegg’s 1978 Sweeney 2 is the slightly disappointing, less good sequel to the successful 1977 big-screen movie spinoff Sweeney! from the hit John Thaw and Dennis Waterman TV series. The London Flying Squad […]
Detectives in London’s Metropolitan Police Flying Squad find political dirty deeds are behind a suicide, in the 1977 British movie Sweeney!, a successful spin-off from the John Thaw and Dennis Waterman TV show. Detectives in […]