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Posts Tagged "organized crime"
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Mad Dog Coll ** (1961, John Davis Chandler, Kay Doubleday, Brooke Hayward) – Classic Movie Review 8531
John Davis Chandler stars as notorious Thirties gangland killer Vincent ‘Mad Dog’ Coll (born on 20 July 1908), an Irish-American mob hitman, in director Burt Balaban’s fictionalised 1961 biographical crime drama Mad Dog Coll. He […]
The Outside Man [Un Homme Est Mort] **** (1972, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ann-Margret, Roy Scheider, Angie Dickinson, Michel Constantin) – Classic Movie Review 8436
Writer-director Jacques Deray’s 1973 The Outside Man [Un Homme Est Mort] is a compelling and robust French gangland action crime thriller, set and filmed on location in Los Angeles, California, but also shot in the […]
Mr Majestyk **** (1974, Charles Bronson, Linda Cristal, Al Lettieri, Lee Purcell, Paul Koslo) – Classic Movie Review 8320
The 1974 Mr Majestyk is one of Charles Bronson’s most effective action thrillers thanks to Richard Fleischer’s buzzing direction and Elmore Leonard’s playful but tough original thriller screenplay. It is Bronson’s only cinema movie written […]
No Road Back ** (1957, Skip Homeier, Paul Carpenter, Patricia Dainton, Norman Wooland, Margaret Rawlings, Eleanor Summerfield, Alfie Bass, Sean Connery, Philip Ray) – Classic Movie Review 8032
Six years after his first London stage appearance in South Pacific, Connery, aged 27, makes his film debut proper as Spike in a small part in director Montgomery Tully’s 1957 British black and white B-movie […]
The Man Who Died Twice *** (1958, Rod Cameron, Vera Ralston, Mike Mazurki) – Classic Movie Review 7613
Director Joseph [Joe] Kane’s 1958 film noir crime drama The Man Who Died Twice stars Vera Ralston, who ended her career, aged 37, with this typically routine but brisk and complex black and white thriller […]
Deadline – USA **** (1952, Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter, Martin Gabel, Ed Begley, Warren Stevens, Paul Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 7610
Writer-director Richard Brooks’s tremendous 1952 film noir crime drama Deadline – USA [aka Deadline] stars Humphrey Bogart as tough, crusading editor Ed Hutcheson, who sends his reporters to expose crime and corruption. However, the owner Margaret […]
Yardie ** (2018, Aml Ameen, Stephen Graham, Fraser James ) – Movie Review
Idris Elba’s intriguing but shaky 2018 directorial debut Yardie is a decent and entertaining enough London gangland revenge crime thriller, but overall must count as a bit of disappointment. The problems are a weak period […]