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The hard-boiled 1965 black and white crime thriller Once a Thief stars Alain Delon as a San Francisco ex-thief who wants to go straight but is dragged back into crime by his brother Walter (Jack […]
Director Robert Asher’s 1960 movie Make Mine Mink is a delightfully zany and quirky British farcical comedy, with Terry-Thomas on top form as an aging retired officer, Major Rayne, who links up with three old […]
Six years after his first London stage appearance in South Pacific, Connery, aged 27, makes his film debut proper as Spike in a small part in director Montgomery Tully’s 1957 British black and white B-movie […]
Director Ed Solomon’s intelligent, well-made 2003 crime drama Levity finds Billy Bob Thornton working hard and effectively as Manuel Jordan, an ex-con looking for redemption after killing a teen while carrying out a robbery 20 […]
Director James Parrott’s 1930 comedy short film Night Owls is the first film to use Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s celebrated theme tune, ‘The Ku-Ku Song’, written by Marvin Hatley. Edgar Kennedy plays a bungling local […]
Virna Lisi and Alf Kjellin star as Eurocrooks Rosa Lucchesi and Eric Lauffnauer, who employ Mark Brittain (Frank Sinatra) to lead a band of treasure hunting conmen to reuse a recovered refloated old wartime German submarine to […]
Walter Hill’s beautifully crafted, dazzlingly stylised 1978 film noir crime action thriller The Driver stars Ryan O’Neal at his melancholic brooding best as the sharpest getaway man in the robbery business. Writer-director Walter Hill’s second […]