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Director Richard Wilson’s 1959 crime thriller biopic Al Capone showcases one of Rod Steiger’s quintessential performances, just stopping short of parody, as Chicago’s best known citizen, the Prohibition-era mobster Alphonse Capone (1899-1947), which lights up […]
Director Harold Becker turns Joseph Wambaugh’s factually based novel about a kidnapped cop Karl Hettinger (John Savage), who witnesses his partner Ian Campbell (Ted Danson)’s murder, into a distinguished inquiry into the American judicial system. […]
Director Menahem Golan’s 1974 true crime Israeli-American film Lepke is a typically Seventies violent gangster movie in the Thirties Warner Bros-style, with an inspired performance by Tony Curtis, cast against type, giving an interesting account […]
John Davis Chandler stars as notorious Thirties gangland killer Vincent ‘Mad Dog’ Coll (born on 20 July 1908), an Irish-American mob hitman, in director Burt Balaban’s fictionalised 1961 biographical crime drama Mad Dog Coll. He […]
British director Tony Richardson took a miscast Mick Jagger Down Under for his 1970 true story adventure film Ned Kelly, a thoughtful if misguided action biopic of the legendary 19th-century Aussie outback outlaw Ned Kelly […]
Madeleine (1949) is a lesser but still intriguing effort from ace all-time great British director David Lean, who casts his then wife Ann Todd in the real-life story of Madeleine Smith who was accused of […]
Director William Friedkin’s often exciting 1978 true crime heist movie The Brink’s Job is based on the real-life American ‘crime of the century’ in 1950 when nearly $3 million was snatched by amateurs in an […]