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Posts Tagged "police procedural"

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Town on Trial *** (1957, John Mills, Charles Coburn, Barbara Bates, Derek Farr, Alec McCowen) – Classic Movie Review 11,732

Director John Guillermin’s 1956 British black and white police procedural thriller Town on Trial stars John Mills, Charles Coburn, Barbara Bates, Derek Farr and Alec McCowen. It is based on Robert Westerby’s original script The […]

Nov, 19

Follow Me Quietly ** (1949, William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey) – Classic Movie Review 11,203

Director Richard Fleischer’s 1949 American police procedural film noir Follow Me Quietly stars William Lundigan as an obsessive police detective who trails an elusive serial killer strangler called The Judge. ‘Police baffled by the FACELESS […]

May, 13

Across 110th Street **** (1972, Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa) – Classic Movie Review 9422

Director Barry Shear’s 1972 Across 110th Street stars Anthony Franciosa as Mafia man Nick D’Salvio, who retaliates furiously when small-time thieves Jim Harris (Paul Benjamin) and Joe Logart (Ed Bernard) steal $300,000 of his Italian […]

Feb, 24

Mystery Street **** (1950, Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Elsa Lanchester, Bruce Bennett, Marshall Thompson, Jan Sterling, Edmon Ryan, Betsy Blair) – Classic Movie Review 8146

Director John Sturges’s 1950 Mystery Street is a well-plotted, fascinating police procedural film noir crime thriller, with Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Elsa Lanchester, Bruce Bennett, Marshall Thompson, Jan Sterling, Edmon Ryan and Betsy Blair starring. […]

Feb, 18

The Laughing Policeman **** (1973, Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett Jr, Albert Paulsen, Anthony Zerbe) – Classic Movie Review 7,529

Rousing performances from Walter Matthau as an obsessed San Francisco police detective and Bruce Dern as his boorish, annoying new partner enliven Stuart Rosenberg’s energetic, exciting 1973 cop thriller The Laughing Policeman.  Rousing performances from […]

Sep, 02

Two Against the Law [Deux Hommes dans la Ville] [Two Men in Town] **** (1973, Alain Delon, Jean Gabin, Mimsy Farmer, Victor Lanoux, Michel Bouquet) – Classic Movie Review 5627

French New Wave icon Alain Delon stars in co-writer/ director José Giovanni’s 1973 Franco-Italian drama film as former bank robber and ex-safe cracker Gino Strabliggi, a recently early released prisoner who has served 10 years […]

Jun, 18

Fabian of the Yard *** (1954, Bruce Seton, Sarah Churchill, Richard Pearson, Gwen Cherrell, Diana Beaumont, Margaret Boyd) – Classic Movie Review 4595

Director Edward Thompson and co-director/ producer Antony Beauchamp’s 1954 British police procedural thriller stars Bruce Seton as the real-life Scotland Yard Superintendent Robert Fabian. Taken from Fabian’s autobiographical book of memoirs, this trio of stories from […]

Nov, 06

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