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The solid 1948 Warner Bros film noir gangster movie Flaxy Martin stars Virginia Mayo as the gold-digging showgirl Flaxy Martin, and Zachary Scott as the honest young lawyer who falls for and protects her. Director […]
Director Nicolas Roeg’s fascinating but uneasy 1983 film about the world’s richest man (Gene Hackman), Arctic prospector Jack McCann, who struck gold in 1925. Two decades on, he is a Citizen Kane figure who is having […]
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 […]
‘The nights are cool. But the days are murder!’ Writer-director John Herzfeld’s cool 1996 black comedy crime thriller revolves around 48 hours of intersecting lives of a group of 10 characters and crimes in the San Fernando Valley, in […]
Writer-director John Flynn’s sweaty, nerve-jangling 1973 neo noir thriller combines a tremendous cast and a terrific basis in a stupendous source novel by Donald E Westlake (writing as Richard Stark). Robert Duvall, Joe Don Baker […]
Director Rudolph Maté’s 1953 romantic film noir crime drama Forbidden provides a good change of pace for its star Tony Curtis, who wears suits for a change, as a hood called Eddie Darrow who is […]
Ben Affleck and Chris Messina star as Joe Coughlin and Dion Bartolo, a couple of Boston gangsters who, to get themselves out of trouble, do a deal with Italian mobster Maso Pescatore (Remo Girone) and set […]