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Sidney Blackmer takes over from Adolphe Menjou as tough Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt for director William Beaudine’s 1942 belated third Colt film, this time from PRC studios. Extortion leads to homicide at the opera and […]
This nifty mystery movie is the second film in Adolphe Menjou’s two-film Columbia Pictures’ series, followed by The Circus Queen Murder (1933). It is available to be seen on Turner Classic Movies. Menjou stars as top cop police […]
Director Fritz Lang’s final film from 1960 is a spirited revisit to his Dr Mabuse stories of the 1922 and 1933 pre-Hitler era. Gert Fröbe (Goldfinger) is on fine form as Commissioner Kras, the cop […]
Co-writer/ director Henri Verneuil’s very satisfactory and entertaining plot-driven 1969 gangster action thriller The Sicilian Clan [Le Clan des Siciliens] is given a classy lift by a top-drawer French and Italian cast. The film is […]
Director Don Siegel’s exciting 1968 police thriller Madigan stars the 57-year-old Richard Widmark, who gives a most compelling star turn as the tough New York City detective of the title, who sets out with his […]
Rufus Sewell stars as a maverick – ie bent – copper who stages a robbery with help from safe-cracker Toby Stephens and crime lord Gabriel Byrne in a London-set crime thriller story that closely recalls the […]
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