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Director Alfred Roome’s familiar but sturdy 1948 British crime melodrama My Brother’s Keeper is grippingly handled, with a fine performance by George Cole offsetting Jack Warner’s slightly less convincing turn, cast against his usual nice-guy […]
Director Vittorio De Sica’s 1966 comedy After the Fox [Caccia alla volpe] stars Peter Sellers in a jovial, harmless Neil Simon heist farce about a small-time conman criminal called Aldo Vanucci aka The Fox (Sellers) […]
Director Richard T Heffron’s slack and lazy but very affable 1977 concoction Outlaw Blues stars Peter Fonda as the singing former jailbird Bobby Ogden, whose material, the title song Outlaw Blues, is pirated by an […]
Director Anthony Mann’s taut, fast-paced and exciting 1942 Paramount Pictures low-budget film noir support thriller Dr Broadway stars Macdonald Carey as nice New York City doctor, Dr Timothy Kane, who is forced to turn sleuth […]
Director Richard Thorpe’s 1952 black and white biographical crime drama Carbine Williams stars James Stewart, who is effectively cast as David ‘Marsh’ Marshall Williams, an embittered jailed bootlegger, who, in the jail tool-shop, invents a new gun […]
The 1992 mystery crime drama Consenting Adults is a disastrous, preposterous film noir thriller from Alan J Pakula (trying to follow up Presumed Innocent) in which Priscilla Parker (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio)’s husband Richard (Kevin Kline) falls […]
‘What happens to girls without men?’ The campy 1956 psychotronic film Girls in Prison stars Richard Denning, Joan Taylor and Adele Jergens. In 1956, even a film called Girls in Prison had a male star. […]