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Director Hobart Henley’s 1930 mob thriller Roadhouse Nights is a cult item as it is loosely based on Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 classic gangster novel Red Harvest, which is also the basis for numerous films, including […]
‘When you talk to me, take that toothpick out of your mouth’ – The Kid. The young Gary Cooper stars as The Kid, a fair worker shooting gallery showman, who falls for a gangster’s daughter Nan […]
‘A New Peter Sellers – Tough and Ruthless!’ as a London villain in John Guillermin’s 1960 crime drama Never Let Go. Director John Guillermin’s 1960 British black and white crime drama thriller film Never Let […]
Charles Bronson plays gangster and informer Joseph Valachi, who spills the beans on his real-life Mafia tale, in director Terence Young’s 1972 thriller The Valachi Papers [Joe Valachi, I Segreti di Cosa Nostra], a very […]
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 […]
Writer-director Richard Brooks’s tremendous 1952 film noir crime drama Deadline – USA [aka Deadline] stars Humphrey Bogart as tough, crusading editor Ed Hutcheson, who sends his reporters to expose crime and corruption. However, the owner Margaret […]
The solid 1948 Warner Bros film noir gangster movie Flaxy Martin stars Virginia Mayo as the gold-digging showgirl Flaxy Martin, and Zachary Scott as the honest young lawyer who falls for and protects her. Director […]