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Director Robert Aldrich’s 1954 American film noir thriller World for Ransom stars Dan Duryea, Gene Lockhart, Patric Knowles, Reginald Denny, Nigel Bruce, Marian Carr, Douglass Dumbrille and Keye Luke. World for Ransom is a big-screen cousin […]
Director Rudolph Maté’s suspenseful and entertaining 1950 black and white Paramount Pictures crime drama film noir thriller Union Station is adapted from Thomas Walsh’s Edgar-winning novel Nightmare in Manhattan, and stars William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald, […]
Director Michael Apted’s 1977 gangster film The Squeeze is a tough and gritty Seventies British action thriller aping an American genre, in which disgraced, alcoholic detective Jim Naboth (Stacy Keach), fired from the police force […]
Hammer Films’ most satisfying 1961 British black and white film noir crime thriller Cash On boasts a very fine performance from their big star Peter Cushing as an efficiency-obsessed bank manager made to help a […]
Director Roger Spottiswoode’s 1981 film The Pursuit of D B Cooper is based on the 1980 book Free Fall: A Novel by J D Reed and stars Robert Duvall as relentless insurance sleuth Bill Gruen, […]
A lively cast are up to their necks in the plot twists of writer-director Andrew Stone’s unnerving 1958 black and white suspense thriller Cry Terror!. Rod Steiger stars as terrorist Paul Hoplin, who plants a […]
The 1973 The Seven-Ups is an edge-of-seat cop thriller, with NYPD Detective Buddy Manucci (Roy Scheider) getting his mobster buddy Vito Lucia (Tony Lo Bianco) to help him catch the meanest bad guys. Producer-director Philip […]