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Gregory Peck stars in I Walk the Line (1970) as an ageing sheriff who gets a crush on a local Lolita (Tuesday Weld). Director John Frankenheimer’s flatfooted, depressing 1970 Tennessee neo noir drama I Walk […]
‘An Unforgettable Experience in Suspense!… As the Seconds Tick Off a Timetable for MURDER!’ The 1961 American black and white neo noir crime thriller Blast of Silence is written and directed by and stars Allen […]
James Toback directs his own script about a quiet virtuoso pianist, Jimmy ‘Fingers’ Angelelli (Harvey Keitel), who gets sucked into becoming a ruthless debt collector enforcing payment of debts for his Italian mob-connected loan shark […]
Director Burt Kennedy’s 1966 watchable but strained Macbeth-style neo noir police crime thriller The Money Trap is a reunion of the great Gilda co-stars (20 years on), Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth, but by now, […]
Director Richard Wilson’s 1959 crime thriller biopic Al Capone showcases one of Rod Steiger’s quintessential performances, just stopping short of parody, as Chicago’s best known citizen, the Prohibition-era mobster Alphonse Capone (1899-1947), which lights up […]
‘Battle Cry of New York’s West Side Jungle!’ The 22-year-old John Saxon has the striking main role as Miguel Estrada, a Puerto Rican former convict tempted back to a life of crime, in debut director […]
Mulholland Falls (1996) is a great-looking, fine neo noir crime thriller with a fine cast to make it work. Nick Nolte stars as Max Hoover, with Melanie Griffith, Chris Penn, Bruce Dern, John Malkovich, Chazz […]