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The understandably hard-to-please Patricia Highsmith approved of Hans W Geißendörfer’s gratifying 1978 West German crime film version of her 1964 masterwork novel The Glass Cell. Director Hans W Geißendörfer’s Die gläserne Zelle [The Glass Cell] […]
John Flynn’s routine but capable enough and entirely acceptable 1989 American prison action thriller film Lock Up stars Sylvester Stallone and Donald Sutherland. Director John Flynn’s routine but capable enough and entirely acceptable 1989 American […]
‘Sensational! Shocking! The inside story of the Nation’s Worst Crime Plot!’ Parole officers fight gangsters infiltrating the US parole system in the 1948 film noir crime thriller Parole, Inc. Director Alfred Zeisler’s low-budget 1948 black […]
Director Tony Bill’s 1987 crime drama/ thriller Five Corners stars Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins, Todd Graff and John Turturro. The first filmed screenplay from Oscar-winning John Patrick Shanley is a strange tale of four young […]
Director David MacDonald’s 1937 black and white Victorian melodramas It’s Never Too Late to Mend stars Tod Slaughter, who extravagantly holds the attention as Squire John Meadows, the wicked Victorian lord of the manor (and […]
Director Russell Mulcahy’s 1993 film The Real McCoy stars Kim Basinger as Karen McCoy, an expert cat-burgling ex-con trying to go straight, who gets out of prison but is dragged back into a life of […]
Director Jack Lee’s ambitious and compelling 1953 black and white British crime drama Turn the Key Softly stars Yvonne Mitchell, Joan Collins and Kathleen Harrison as three women in trouble getting used to their lives […]