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Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 Japanese police procedural thriller film High and Low stars Toshiro Mifune as a businessman who finds a kidnapper has abducted his chauffeur’s son in mistake for his own boy. Director Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 […]
The 1957 British crime drama B film You Pay Your Money is a sturdy and energetic filler thriller, based on Michael Cronin’s novel about kidnapping and rare book smuggling. It stars Hugh McDermott, Jane Hylton […]
The suspenseful 1950 film noir Union Station stars William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald and Nancy Olson. A villain (Lyle Bettger) abducts a blind teenage girl (Allene Roberts) for the ransom, but a tough police lieutenant (William […]
Writer-director Ron Nyswaner’s inventive 1988 black comedy drama film The Prince of Pennsylvania stars Fred Ward, Keanu Reeves, Bonnie Bedelia, and Amy Madigan. Keanu Reeves plays Rupert Marshetta, an oddball misfit youngster in love with […]
Director Tom Kinnimont’s 2001 film The Enemy is a tense, fast-moving, old-style action thriller, based on a novel by Desmond Bagley and starring Luke Perry, Roger Moore, Olivia D’Abo, Horst Buchholz and Tom Conti. In […]
Director Lesley Selander’s 1950 RKO Pictures black and white hour-long Western film Rider from Tucson stars Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Veda Ann Borg, Douglas Fowley, Marshall Reed, Warren Phipps and Elaine Riley. Cowpunchers Dave Saunders […]
Director Michael Apted’s 1977 gangster film The Squeeze is a tough and gritty Seventies British action thriller aping an American genre, in which disgraced, alcoholic detective Jim Naboth (Stacy Keach), fired from the police force […]