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The Britain’s Public Enemy Number One man himself, John McVicar, adapts his own book about his days as a dangerous criminal, his jailbreaks and his rehabilitation. Director Tom Clegg’s 1980 crime thriller McVicar is a […]
Director Colin Gregg’s provocative 1988 British comedy drama We Think the World of You stars Alan Bates and Gary Oldman. J R Ackerley’s moving novel about a middle-aged gay man, Frank Meadows, and his loving […]
Director William Witney’s 1965 film Arizona Raiders is a routinely scripted but pacey and lively old-style Western with a bad sense of history and a good supply of gunsmoke. After the US Civil War, confederate […]
Raymond Cordy and Henri Marchand star in writer-director René Clair’s dazzlingly witty 1931 left-wing satirical comedy À Nous la Liberté [Freedom for Us], in which Louis (Raymond Cordy) escapes from jail and works his way up […]
Young Adam Faith (aged 22) stars as Harry Jukes, who is unjustly convicted of a cop killing, but finds a champion in his lawyer Philip Bellamy QC (Donald Sinden)’s wife, psychiatrist Dr Anne Dyson (Anne […]
Director Phil Karlson’s 1975 action crime thriller Framed stars Joe Don Baker as innocent gambler Ron Lewis who is out after four years of jail for supposedly killing a town sheriff (he has killed the […]
Director Robert Bresson’s 1956 French film Un Condamné à Mort S’est Échappé ou Le Vent Souffle où il Veut [A Man Escaped] is the brilliantly made, stark, true story of a captured French Resistance fighter, […]