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Director Nick Grinde’s 1939 Columbia Pictures black and white crime drama film Scandal Sheet is a rough-hewn, melodramatic newspaper yarn with tough scandal sheet tabloid editor Jim Stevenson (Otto Kruger) ready to kill to stop […]
Director James Hogan’s 1938 Paramount Productions black and white drama film Scandal Sheet is based on the original story Suburb by Vera Caspary, and stars Lew Ayres and Louise Campbell. A woman called Nora Langdon […]
Director William Castle’s twisty and satisfying 1951 American film noir detective crime thriller The Fat Man stars J Scott Smart as Dashiell Hammett’s tubby sleuth Brad Runyan (50s radio’s The Fat Man) on the trail of […]
Ah yes, the 2010 Best Foreign Language Film of the Year, for Argentina. The Secret in Their Eyes [El secreto de sus ojos] is a classy, haunting, and beautifully acted 2009 Argentinian crime drama film, […]
Director Nigel Patrick’s 1957 British black and white comedy film How to Murder a Rich Uncle stars Nigel Patrick, Charles Coburn, Katie Johnson, Wendy Hiller, Anthony Newley, Athene Seyler and Michael Caine. How to Murder […]
Director Claude Chabrol’s fascinating 1971 French murder-mystery film Ten Days’ Wonder [La Décade prodigieuse] stars Orson Welles, Marlène Jobert, Anthony Perkins, and Michel Piccoli. Intriguing as it always is, Chabrol defined it as a ‘failed film’ […]
Director Robert Florey’s 1933 Warner Bros American pre-Code melodrama film The House on 56th Street stars Kay Francis as Peggy Martin Van Tyle aka Peggy Stone, a wronged woman sent to prison for 20 years […]