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Walter Huston gives an excellent star performance as nifty district attorney Mark Brady who, after prosecuting the 20-year-old Robert Graham (Phillips Holmes) with a weak murder case and gaining a 20-year conviction against him, becomes […]
Writer-director John Flynn’s sweaty, nerve-jangling 1973 neo noir thriller combines a tremendous cast and a terrific basis in a stupendous source novel by Donald E Westlake (writing as Richard Stark). Robert Duvall, Joe Don Baker […]
Director Anthony Mann’s rousing little 1948 film noir crime drama Raw Deal tells a complex, tough tale about a young woman called Pat Cameron (Claire Trevor) who helps her innocent boyfriend Joe Sullivan (Dennis O’Keefe) […]
Director Angela Pope’s 1994 cinema debut is a challenging drama, with Julia Ormond well cast as a young English dentist who starts a passionate, secret affair with a prisoner patient (Tim Roth) moving towards the […]
Directors Elmo Williams and Herbert Glazer’s 1956 crime melodrama is a minor but intriguing movie from Britain’s Hammer Films studio, promoted with a teasing title that promises something it could hardly deliver in the Fifties. […]
William Holden stars with George Raft and Humphrey Bogart in the Warner Bros gangster flick Invisible Stripes (1939). In the first of their two films together, George Raft and Humphrey Bogart make a good team […]
Humphrey Bogart is in trouble again in prison – San Quentin – in director Lloyd Bacon’s moderate 1937 film noir-style jail movie, in which he plays hardened inmate ‘Red’ Kennedy, sentenced to jail for robbery. Meanwhile […]