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The 1950 film noir crime thriller Backfire is a satisfyingly complicated and labyrinthine murder mystery. Gordon MacRae stars as war vet searching for his framed murder-suspect buddy (Edmond O’Brien) and tangling with a femme fatale […]
Director Irving Pichel’s excellent 1947 film noir thriller They Won’t Believe Me stars Robert Young, who is well cast way outside his usual friendly, sympathetic mould in a chilling role as Larry Ballentine, a spineless […]
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 […]
Burt Reynolds directs himself as star of the tense, exciting, ultra-tough 1981 cop thriller Sharky’s Machine as Tom Sharky an Atlanta vice cop who heads a new squad (his ‘machine’) hunting a mob boss called Victor […]
Young Juliette Lewis and Brad Pitt show a lot of class and charisma in director Robert Markowitz’s shocking 1989 true-story drama. It is written by David Hill and George Rubino, based on a fact-based story by David […]
Director Hugh Wilson’s 1987 Burglar wastes Whoopi Goldberg as Bernice ‘Bernie’ Rhodenbarr, a cat burglar and bookstore owner, wanted for a murder that she has only witnessed. The dead body is found in a house […]
Sterling Hayden and Gene Barry are ideal, and so is noir favourite Gloria Grahame as bar singer Marianna, in the toughly cast, enjoyable little 1954 crime thriller Naked Alibi, with a good film noir atmosphere. […]