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The often hilarious 1990 British caper comedy Nuns on the Run stars ideal Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane, who give winningly amusing performances as bank robbers who hide in a nunnery dressed as nuns. Writer-director […]
As director or screenwriter, witch-hunt victim Abraham Polonsky was the auteur of three of the great film noirs: Body and Soul (1947), Force of Evil (1948) and Odds Against Tomorrow (1959). McCarthy witch-hunt victim Abraham […]
Melvin Van Peebles writes, scores, edits, directs, produces and stars in the 1971 action crime drama Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Asssss Song. Melvin Van Peebles is the whole show as Sweetback, a cool guy on the […]
Director Ken Annakin’s 1957 black and white thriller Across the Bridge stars Rod Steiger, who came to Britain to play Carl Schaffner, a scared swindler running from the London law ( Noel Willman as Chief […]
Sidney Poitier directs the 1982 Hitchcockian comedy thriller Hanky Panky, with Gene Wilder as an innocent architect, Michael Jordon, chased across country by spies and police. Gilda Radner plays the mystery woman accompanying him and […]
Willie Nelson is charismatic as the legendary outlaw on the run and Gary Busey is excellent as the young cowboy protégé he befriends, in Fred Schepisi’s spirited 1982 Western film Barbarosa. Director Fred Schepisi’s spirited […]
Director John Landis’s dark and dangerous 1985 comedy thriller Into the Night stars Jeff Goldblum as wimpish Los Angeles aviation designer Ed Okin, who cannot sleep, so he drives aimlessly around LA and ends up in the parking garage […]