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Paired for the first time in their five films together, Tony Curtis stars with his then wife Janet Leigh in director George Marshall’s largely imaginary 1953 biopic of the great escaper Harry Houdini (aka Erich […]
Directors John and Roy Boulting’s tense 1950 British suspense thriller tells a concerned and intelligent story about an English atomic scientist Professor Willingdon (Barry Jones) runs away from a research center with an atomic bomb. He […]
John Bentley again plays novelist-sleuth Paul Temple, who this time investigates a series of gruesome murders by a mysterious serial killer known as The Marquis, in the 1952 British thriller film Paul Temple Returns. John […]
‘THE IMPOSSIBLE CRIME. THRILLER OF THRILLERS’ Ken Hughes’s 1955 British black and white crime film Little Red Monkey is a complex, very nifty, and extremely enjoyable little Cold War espionage thriller. Richard Conte and Rona […]
Director Don Siegel was fortunate with his 1946 feature film directorial début in having one of the Forties crime thriller’s best teams – Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre – heading the foggy London Victorian film […]
Bela Lugosi stars in the 1939 British horror film The Dark Eyes of London as the mysterious monstrous maniac Dr Orloff who commits a series of murders for insurance money. Director Walter Summers’s 1939 British […]
John Wayne was none too well, aged 67 and showing it when he played the surprisingly elderly Irish-American police detective lieutenant Jim Brannigan, who visits tourist London to collect an American mobster Ben Larkin (John […]