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Spencer Tracy is excellent as a bootlegging gangster, in the busy 1933 mob movie The Mad Game. Director Irving Cummings’s 1933 American Pre-Code crime drama film The Mad Game stars Spencer Tracy and Claire Trevor, […]
Director Rudolph Maté’s suspenseful and entertaining 1950 black and white Paramount Pictures crime drama film noir thriller Union Station is adapted from Thomas Walsh’s Edgar-winning novel Nightmare in Manhattan, and stars William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald, […]
Director William Beaudine’s 1948 Lindsley Parsons Picture Corporation/ Monogram Pictures poverty row double feature film adventure Kidnapped is another antique American version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale, this time with Roddy McDowall as the boy […]
Michael Caine returns for the fifth and final time as one-time British secret agent Harry Palmer, in the 1996 made-for-TV thriller Midnight in St Petersburg, the sequel to Bullet to Beijing, released the year before, […]
Writer-director Jesús Franco’s 1962 Spanish horror movie The Awful Dr Orloff [Gritos en la noche] stars Howard Vernon as Dr Orloff. He is a mad doctor who kidnaps beautiful women to operate on them and […]
Director George Sluizer’s terrifying 1988 Dutch mystery horror psycho thriller The Vanishing [Spoorloos], based on Tim Krabbé’s novel The Golden Egg with a screenplay by the author, is highly disturbing, even uniquely disturbing, but with […]
Director William Wyler’s 1965 The Collector stars Terence Stamp as a dangerously withdrawn, deranged bank clerk and butterfly collector called Freddie Clegg, who decides to collect human specimens, and abducts a young woman art student […]