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‘THEY SLASHED A CRIME-SCAR ACROSS THE MAP OF AMERICA!’ Writer-director Andrew L Stone’s tremendous 1950 Warner Bros gangster film noir crime drama Highway 301 stars Steve Cochran, Virginia Grey, Gaby André, Edmon Ryan, Richard Egan, […]
Director Hobart Henley’s 1930 mob thriller Roadhouse Nights is a cult item as it is loosely based on Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 classic gangster novel Red Harvest, which is also the basis for numerous films, including […]
Director Brian De Palma’s 1993 movie Carlito’s Way is a masterly mob thriller, a worthy successor to his own Scarface and The Untouchables, with some of his greatest set pieces. His Scarface star Al Pacino gives […]
Sharon Stone is a powerful and attractive star presence as a gangster’s moll on the run, in Sidney Lumet’s rickety 1999 Mob thriller remake Gloria. Director Sidney Lumet’s efficient and tolerable 1999 remake of John […]
James Cagney is brilliant as psychotic, epileptic gangster Cody Jarrett, fixated on his conniving mother Ma Jarrett (Margaret Wycherly), in the awesome 1949 gangster film White Heat. A perfectly cast James Cagney is brilliant as […]
With Joel directing, Ethan producing and both of them writing, the Coen Brothers’ edge-of-seat Mob thriller is scarily dynamic, urgently propelled and spectacularly stylish. Stylised and jokey near to the point of parody, it stops […]
‘Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.’ Part II of The Godfather starts in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, in 1958, with the tormented Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) now head of the ‘family’, having inherited the […]