Check out all of the posts tagged with "double cross".
Lino Ventura gives astonishingly powerful performance as Inspector Amerigo Rogas, the tenacious police detective on the case of the mysterious murders of some Italian Supreme Court judges, in director Francesco Rosi’s illustrious 1975 Italian political […]
Producer-director Stanley Donen in 1966 tries to repeat the success of his Charade (1963)with another sleekly handsome romantic pair (Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren) thrown into another jokey, escapist Hitchcock-style thriller plot, complete with spies, international […]
Director Robert Siodmak’s intriguing tangled web of a 1949 thriller stars Burt Lancaster as Steve Thompson, who returns to his home town of Los Angeles and finds his lovely ex-wife Anna Dundee (Yvonne De Carlo) […]
Director Jacques Tourneur’s brilliant 1947 film noir classic Out of the Past [Build My Gallows High] is an extremely engrossing, especially rousing thriller. It is the quintessence of noir, one of the most typical and […]
The Coen Brothers make their film debut in 1984 with the astonishing, thrillingly realised neo-noir thriller Blood Simple. Frances McDormand also makes her film debut and M Emmet Walsh stars as the double-crossing private detective. […]
Co-writer-director Billy Wilder’s 1944 black and white film noir thriller milestone Double Indemnity still plays beautifully whether on late-night TV or on cinema revivals. Hugely admired and much imitated, it is a sizzling movie masterpiece. […]