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Vandyke Productions’ 1951 British second feature crime film The Six Men stars Harold Warrender and Michael Evans as Scotland Yard detectives baffled by a gang’s daring crimes. Director Michael Law’s 1951 British second feature crime […]
Two dubious stories about Christine Norden. After she died in 1988, part of the planet Venus was named after her as a tribute to her status as Britain’s first postwar sex symbol. In 1967 she […]
The implausible though engaging enough 1963 low-budget British noir drama film A Matter of Choice stars Anthony Steel and Jeanne Moody. Director Vernon Sewell said: ‘Oh it was a disaster… a bloody awful movie.’ Director […]
Terence Fisher’s suspenseful 1953 British crime film Mantrap [Man in Hiding] stars Paul Henreid as a lawyer detective who, helped by his secretary (Kay Kendall), tries to show that a man on the run (Kieron […]
Terence Fisher’s 1954 Hammer Films British noir black and white mystery thriller film The Stranger Came Home [The Unholy Four] stars Paulette Goddard, William Sylvester, Patrick Holt and Paul Carpenter. ‘What was the shock SIN […]
‘Call me a gangster or a mobster… but not a delinquent!’ Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1953 British black and white noir drama Cosh Boy is quite bad – but with a really good cast, and it […]
‘EXPLODES… in a sinister network of evil!’ The 1954 British crime film noir Murder by Proxy [Blackout] stars Dane Clark as a down-and-out offered money to marry a beautiful young heiress (Belinda Lee). ‘EXPLODES… in […]