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Director Gordon Douglas’s 1958 film The Fiend Who Walked the West is a full-blooded Western reworking of ideas from the 1947 Kiss of Death, with Robert Evans going enjoyably over the top as a psychotic murderer […]
Director Joseph Losey’ s dark 1960 British New Wave film-noir-style thriller takes a thoroughly engrossing Expressionist look at the UK criminal world of the day. Stanley Baker is on fine form as Johnny Bannion, the […]
Director Lew Landers’s 1953 film noir thriller stars the always excellent Edmond O’Brien, Audrey Totter and Ted de Corsia, is filmed in 3D and is based on a story by Henry Altimus and Tom Van […]
Director Archie Mayo’s entirely enjoyable enough 1946 comedy finds the Marx Brothers still happily crazy and subversive in their later years. It introduced the song ‘Who’s Sorry Now?’, which became a bigger hit than the […]
Director Silvio Narizzano films Joe Orton’s wickedly funny, now classic 1965 stage black comedy Loot in 1970 – the same year as the movie of Entertaining Mr Sloane. To succeed, Orton’s outrageous, wonderfully bad-taste comedy […]
Director David McNally’s 2003 comedy for producer Jerry Bruckheimer is bad. In a lull in his brilliant career, Christopher Walken plays a Mob boss called Salvatore ‘Sal’ Maggio, who despatches his New York hairstylist stepson […]