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Director Don Siegel’s taut, tough-toned and witty 1958 B-movie film noir police procedural crime thriller The Lineup, a big-screen version of the hit 1954-60 TV series The Lineup aka San Francisco Beat, is a credit […]
Writer-director Elaine May signed up real-life old friends Peter Falk and John Cassavetes for her 1976 Mikey and Nicky as long-time criminal buddies Mikey and Nicky, one of whom turns out to be designated by […]
Warren Beatty stars as a club stand-up comic, who flees Detroit for Chicago to escape his involvement with the Mob, changing his identity to Mickey One after stealing the social security card of a homeless tramp. But he […]
Director Roger Corman’s lively and lusty 1959 film noir crime drama movie I Mobster is your usual version of that usual, well-known yarn, used again in 1992 in Billy Bathgate and Mobsters, about a poor […]
Even Danny DeVito cannot rescue director Brian De Palma’s tasteless and unfunny 1986 gangster crime comedy about two hoodlums called Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein, played by DeVito and Saturday Night Live alumnus Joe Piscopo (who […]
Director Susan Seidelman’s 1985 hit neo screwball comedy Desperately Seeking Susan is a delicious, offbeat romantic comedy adventure starring Rosanna Arquette as the fed-up housewife Roberta Glass who investigates a puzzling series of personal ads […]
Director Joseph Sargent’s 1984 drama stars James Cagney in his final film and sole TV film. Infirm and at the age of 84, he gives a likeable performance as Joe Moran, a retired, disabled, wheelchair-using […]