Director Ralph Nelson’s 1962 black and white sports drama Requiem for a Heavyweight (Blood Money in GB) is a dour, nimbly-played fight movie, with the acting, fleshed-out characterisations and sweaty atmosphere stronger than the plot. […]
Director Robert D Webb’s 1960 Western adventure Guns of the Timberland is based on Louis L’Amour’s 1955 novel, which sold more than a million copies, and stars Alan Ladd, Jeanne Crain, Gilbert Roland, Frankie Avalon, Lyle Bettger, Noah […]
Director Roger Corman’s 1956 very quick, very low cost Western stars John Ireland, Beverly Garland and Allison Hayes, with Corman regulars Dick Miller, William Schallert, Bruno VeSota and Jonathan Haze in support. With the screenplay by writers Charles […]
Director Phil Karlson’s 1955 crime thriller Tight Spot stars Ginger Rogers, Edward G Robinson and Brian Keith, and is a vintage film noir treat. It is based on Leonard Kantor’s play Dead Pigeon, which only […]
‘THE SCREEN’S TOP TOUGH GUYS MEET FACE TO FACE!’ Director Lewis Allen’s 1955 Cold War film noir spy crime thriller A Bullet for Joey stars Edward G Robinson and George Raft, two legendary stars a […]
One-time pop star Fabian Forte enjoys himself as Thirties real-life nasty mobster Charles ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd, creating quite a psychopathic ogre. Producer-director Larry Buchanan’s 1970 B-gangster movie A Bullet for Pretty Boy, made in the wake […]
Director Jesse Hibbs’s 1954 Western Ride Clear of Diablo stars Andie Murphy as railroad surveyor Clay O’Mara, who rides out to avenge the murder of his father and brother, and becomes deputy to Fred Kenyon (Paul […]
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