Check out all of the posts tagged with "murder".
Crazy miscasting bedevils director Roy Ward Baker’s magnetically ridiculous British 1960 Freudian romantic adventure based on Audrey Erskine-Lindop’s novel. Alas, it has over-reaching ambitions and its serious nature and high-minded intentions only serve to make […]
Director Tim Hunter’s notable 1986 cult success River’s Edge boasts outstanding, memorable eccentric acting turns from Dennis Hopper as Feck, a crippled drugs supplier, and Crispin Glover as Layne, a crazy customer. Neal Jimenez is […]
Director John English’s neat and nifty little 1945 horror thriller stars Richard Arlen, Stanley Ridges and Lynne Roberts, who make a grand job of John K Butler’s original screenplay in which the evil spirit of an executed […]
Hammer Films’ still-fun B-movie thriller film A Case for PC 49 is made in Britain in 1951 by director Francis Searle and features the original radio PC 49 Brian Reece. Hammer Films’ second PC 49 […]
Producer-director Michael Winner’s 1971 Western stars Burt Lancaster as Jared Maddox, the lawman from Bannock who rides into the town of Sabbath to round up all the cattlemen who accidentally killed an elderly dude with a […]
Ken Russell’s incredibly boisterous 1975 film adaptation of The Who’s rock opera Tommy features Roger Daltrey as the catatonic Tommy Walker. Tina Turner as The Acid Queen, Jack Nicholson as a slimy doctor, and Ann-Margret as […]
Sydney Pollack’s complex and satisfying 1981 thriller film Absence of Malice stars Sally Field as a naïve reporter tricked by the FBI into framing a Miami liquor wholesaler (Paul Newman) with a false story. Producer-director […]