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The powerful but distasteful 1971 British gangster thriller movie Villain stars Richard Burton in a nasty role as Vic Dakin, a sadistic, murderous, mother-obsessed London East End cockney gangland leader. Director Michael Tuchner’s powerful but […]
The exceptional 1955 musical crime film Pete Kelly’s Blues stars Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O’Brien, Peggy Lee, Andy Devine, Lee Marvin and Ella Fitzgerald, and features Jayne Mansfield. It is based on Jack Webb’s […]
The rumbustious 1974 prototype buddy cop movie Freebie and the Bean stars James Caan and Alan Arkin as bickering San Francisco cops. Loretta Swit and Valerie Harper make a strong impression in a noisy, funny […]
Billy Halop was cast as Tommy Gordon in the 1935 Broadway production of Sidney Kingsley’s play Dead End and got the call to go to Hollywood with the rest of the young actors playing the Dead End […]
The entertaining 1942 film noir crime thriller The Big Shot stars Humphrey Bogart as crime boss Duke Berne, put on trial after a mistake on an identity parade. Irene Manning plays Duke’s old sweetheart. The […]
Jack Nicholson stars as a down-at-heel guard dog trainer hired by opera singer Joan Spruance (Ellen Barkin) to steal a manuscript for a tell-all book from one of his clients, her airhead sister who is […]
Joan Crawford and her famous shoulder pads star in director Felix E Feist’s trashy but intense 1952 romantic film noir melodrama This Woman Is Dangerous, standard Fifties Crawford fare of a hard nut with a […]