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Director Michael Tuchner’s powerful but distasteful 1971 movie Villain is an effective but unattractive and revoltingly violent British gangster thriller, with Richard Burton giving a strong account of himself in an extremely nasty and unsympathetic […]
Director Joseph Losey’s smart 1959 British murder mystery Blind Date [Chance Meeting], mostly told in flashback, stars Hardy Kruger as Jan Van Rooyer, a young Dutch painter in London who discovers the body of his […]
Douglas Sirk’s 1947 film noir serial killer thriller Lured really is a bit of a little gem. It is quite creepy – Lucille Ball as a dancer in danger and lots of old guys, among […]
Producer-director John Ford’s engrossing and compelling 1958 British thriller Gideon of Scotland Yard [Gideon’s Day] stars an ideally cast Jack Hawkins as harassed plain-clothes police inspector George Gideon of Scotland Yard, who is having quite […]
Ealing Studios’ engrossing 1956 British crime thriller film The Long Arm stars Jack Hawkins in one of his quintessential roles as a Scotland Yard detective investigating a series of safe-breaking jobs. Director Charles Frend’s 1956 […]
Loveable Jack Lemmon squeezes in a juicy comedy performance in Richard Quine’s amusing and stylish 1962 screwball comedy-cum-mystery The Notorious Landlady. Lemmon partners with Kim Novak, who designed her own gowns. Bill Gridley (Jack Lemmon) […]
Director Basil Dearden’s pioneering issue-led 1959 British murder thriller Sapphire stars Nigel Patrick, Michael Craig, Yvonne Mitchell, Paul Massie, Bernard Miles, Gordon Heath, Earl Cameron, Olga Lindo, Rupert Davies and Peter Vaughan. Dearden won the 1960 […]