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Director Lewis Allen’s intriguing 1955 film noir Illegal stars Edward G Robinson, Nina Foch, Albert Dekker and Hugh Marlowe. Robinson stars as canny former district attorney Victor Scott, who becomes a crooked lawyer for a […]
Director Edward Dmytryk’s gripping and intelligent 1947 low-budget film noir crime thriller Crossfire is a flashback-told conscience-raiser about the hate murder of a Jewish man in a New York hotel. Apart from being a fine thriller, […]
Director Paul Henreid casts his friend and sometime co-star Bette Davis, who hugely enjoys her lip-smacking double role as Margaret DeLorca and Edith Phillips, in the deliriously entertaining 1964 pot-boiling thriller Dead Ringer. After her […]
Director Robert Siodmak’s notable 1948 thriller stars Victor Mature as a cop, Police Lieutenant Candella, who sets out to hunt down his old school buddy, petty crook Martin Rome (Richard Conte), who has shot a […]
Director John Cromwell’s distinguished 1947 thriller Dead Reckoning takes a lot of familiar film noir elements and stirs the pot to boiling point, cooking up an extremely tasty, fresh-seeming stew. It starts with a strong […]
Director Sheldon Lettich’s passably impactful 1991 action thriller provides Jean-Claude Van Dammes with twin roles, which proved so popular that he repeated the formula over and over. Van Damme plays twins separated on the death of their parents. […]
In June 2013, nine restored versions of Alfred Hitchcock’s early silent films, including his 1925 first completed film as director, The Pleasure Garden, were shown at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theatre. Known as […]