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‘PHILO VANCE TACKLES A MONSTER! ‘ Warren William takes over effectively from William Powell as private detective Philo Vance in director H Bruce Humberstone’s efficient 1934 mystery thriller The Dragon Murder Case, shot at Warner […]
The 1966 Technicolor thriller film An American Dream is based on the novel by Norman Mailer, and stars Stuart Whitman and Janet Leigh. After it bombed at the box office, Warner Bros re-titled it See […]
The tense and robust 1985 French action crime thriller film Cop’s Honour [Parole de Flic] is produced by and stars Alain Delon in his welcome return to crime films after more personal dramatic films. French […]
‘DANGER AT NIGHTFALL! ROMANCE AT DAYBREAK!’ Lew Ayres described director Charles Lederer’s 1942 MGM black and white film noir mystery chiller Fingers at the Window as ‘the kind of picture actors do when they need […]
‘London Is Not Only Losing Her Soul To The Americans, She’s Selling It.’ Co-writer /director Danny Cannon’s 1993 unpersuasive British police thriller The Young Americans stars Harvey Keitel as hardened New York Police Detective John […]
Director Bo Widerberg’s 1976 Swedish film The Man on the Roof [Mannen pò Taket] starts with the brutal killing of a police inspector in a hospital in Stockholm that initiates a manhunt led by detective […]
The 1949 black and white film noir Man on the Run is a humdrum British post-war thriller with a familiar plot, but it is given a little bit of a lift with decent acting and […]