Director Charles Crichton’s 1957 black and white drama The Man in the Sky [Decision Against Time] is Boys’ Own adventure stuff with a brave – some might even say foolhardy – test pilot John Mitchell (Jack […]
Writer-director Maxwell Shane’s 1955 The Naked Street is a rather limp and clichéd crime-romance film noir melodrama starring Farley Granger as Nicky Bradna, a small-time hood involved in ugly crimes and a doomed romance with Rosalie […]
Producer/director Jules Dassin boldly remakes John Ford’s 1935 classic The Informer in 1968 as Uptight, with an African American cast headed by Raymond St Jacques, Ruby Dee, Julian Mayfield, Frank Silvera, Roscoe Lee Brown, Janet […]
‘Michael Redgrave with an ingenious hand for disorder … Robert Morley as the intrepid arm of the law.’ Director Charles Crichton’s 1958 Law and Disorder is a smart, pacy and amusing Ealing Studios-style caper comedy, […]
The slick 1947 British film noir thriller The Upturned Glass stars James Mason as a neurosurgeon intent on avenging the murder of his lover. Director Lawrence Huntington’s 1947 The Upturned Glass is a slickly handled […]
The 1951 film noir crime thriller He Ran all the Way stars John Garfield in his final film, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford, Selena Royle and Gladys George. Director John Berry’s 1951 American film noir crime thriller […]
Director R G Springsteen’s gutsy, keeping-it-real 1964 B-movie Western He Rides Tall, with its heavy ‘man’s-gotta-do what a man’s-gotta-do’ message and a robust Dan Duryea star turn, was considered tough and sadistic in its day. […]
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