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Lee Marvin stars in the 1955 film noir Shack Out on 101 as Slob, a lecherous short-order cook. But, don’t worry, he is also a spy using his diner as a base to smuggle nuclear […]
Director John Flynn’s 1977 Seventies revenge film Rolling Thunder is a highly intriguing post-Vietnam thriller, in which a tortured former PoW, war hero Major Charles Rane (William Devane), sets off on the vengeance death trail […]
‘Eight men and a woman… one betrayed the man Marie-Octobre really loved.’ Director Julien Duvivier’s 1959 black and white French drama Marie-Octobre [Secret Meeting] stars Danielle Darrieux, who is superb as Marie-Octobre in this gripping […]
Director Enzo Barboni’s 1987 Renegade stars Terence Hill as a drifter called Renegade Luke who makes his way across America by selling his faithful steed Joe, which then promptly trots back to him. But violence […]
Director Joe May’s 1944 black-and-white wartime housing shortage comedy-romance Johnny Doesn’t Live Here Anymore [And So They Were Married] stars William Terry as the titular Johnny Moore, who joins the army, newly enlisted in the Marines. […]
Director Arthur Ripley’s 1958 Thunder Road stars Robert Mitchum as Lucas Doolin, the definitive moonshine merchant, in this well-done, exciting and eventful film noir crime action thriller about bootlegging Kentucky mountain family folk dodging cops […]
Director Phil Karlson’s commendable 1955 black and white film noir crime thriller 5 Against the House is especially suspenseful and inventively written. It is notable as an early example of a filmed heist and depiction […]