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Director Budd Boetticher’s classic cult 1960 gangster B-movie, with lots of action and an authoritative, career-best performance by Ray Danton as the hoodlum Jack ‘Legs’ Diamond in prohibition-era Twenties New York, deserves its fame and […]
Donald Pleasence is ideally cast in the 1963 British film Dr Crippen as the real-life Edwardian doctor Hawley Harvey Crippen, who was hanged in 1910 for the murder of his wife. But was he really […]
Director Paul Schrader’s 1988 drama tells the astonishing, and uniquely troubling story of Patty Hearst, the American newspaper heiress who was kidnapped in Berkeley, California, by Symbionese Liberation Army terrorists on February 4 1974 before […]
Jason Robards stars as the notorious mobster Al Capone, and Ralph Meeker plays his deadly rival ‘Bugs’ Moran, in Roger Corman’s modish 1967 cult gangster movie The St Valentine’s Day Massacre. Producer-director Roger Corman’s modish 1967 cult […]
Co-writer- director Terri Winsor’s 2000 thriller stars Sean Bean, who plays, very unconvincingly, a violent Essex cabbie called Jason Locke, who falls on hard times and tries to make ends meet by becoming the personal […]