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Director Richard Fleischer’s brilliant, deservedly celebrated 1952 B-movie film noir crime thriller The Narrow Margin is the best of its kind. Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor and Jacqueline White relish their moments of glory. This fast-paced, […]
Robert Mitchum gives a legendary performance as a one-time private eye, caught between a mobster (Kirk Douglas) and a femme fatale (Jane Greer), in the brilliant 1947 film noir classic Out of the Past [Build […]
In director Lee Tamahori’s 2001 movie, Morgan Freeman continues his role as police detective-psychologist Alex Cross in this efficient and fast-moving, if mechanical and highly unlikely cop thriller sequel to 1997’s Kiss the Girls. Despite […]
Paul Newman is outstanding as small-time pool hustler ‘Fast’ Eddie Felson, in the 1961 classic film The Hustler, and Piper Laurie is memorable as Newman’s troubled, alcoholic lost girl, Sarah Packard. In co-writer/director Robert Rossen’s […]
Director Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 poundingly exciting sci-fi action thriller boasts a great premise and a spectacular role and snazzy cyborg suit for Peter Weller as Alex Murphy, the futureworld Detroit cop who is blown to […]
Dusting himself off in 1947 after all his troubles on Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons, Orson Welles writes, produces, directs and stars in the teasing, exhilarating 1947 film noir tour de force The Lady […]
John Huston’s 1941 classic The Maltese Falcon is a movie masterpiece of film noir, lovingly derived from Dashiell Hammett’s renowned detective thriller novel. Humphrey Bogart relishes one of his most iconic roles as the gumshoe […]