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Noah Beery Sr stars as a Chicago gangster trying to track down crooks and solve a murder, in the 1936 British crime film thriller The Avenging Hand. Directors Frank Richardson and (uncredited) Victor Hanbury’s 1936 […]
The tense and moody 1975 French real-life crime thriller film Flic Story stars Alain Delon as police detective Roger Borniche and Jean-Louis Trintignant as Borniche, the gangster and killer he hunts down for nine years. […]
Director Georges Lautner’s 1963 French crime comedy film Les Tontons Flingueurs [Crooks in Clover] is exceptionally slack and lame, a waste of talent and a bit of a waste of time. The pathetic lowbrow slapstick […]
Director Gilles Grangier’s 1963 French-Italian crime film Maigret voit rouge [Maigret Sees Red] stars Jean Gabin, Françoise Fabian and Roland Armontel. Maybe it is strictly genre policier / gangster material, perhaps it is the least […]
‘ON GUARD, AMERICA! New amazing racket sweeps nation!’ Director Louis King’s 1938 Paramount Pictures American crime drama film Illegal Traffic reunites J Carrol Naish and Robert Preston from the same year’s King of Alcatraz. It […]
Captain Glennan (Harry Carey Sr): ‘Man and boy, I’ve sailed the seas for 30 years… and I’ve never lost a ship.’ Director Robert Florey’s 1938 American crime drama film King of Alcatraz stars Gail Patrick, […]
Director Carlo Lizzani’s 1974 crime thriller film Crazy Joe is an effective, strongly cast Italian gangster movie about real-life hot-tempered New York mafia boss ‘Crazy Joe’ Gallo, played by Peter Boyle. Crazy Joe is a […]