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Director Lew Landers’s 1952 adventure Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land is another in Columbia Pictures’ 16-film Jungle Jim series (1948-55), starring Johnny Weissmuller who had retired after 16 years as the screen’s most famous […]
Director Phillip Borsos’s 1985 neo noir The Mean Season is a gripping, powerful, atmospheric crime thriller with an excellent role for Kurt Russell as Malcolm Anderson, the Miami newspaper reporter used as a public mouthpiece […]
The tragic tale of Lizzie Borden offers a grand role for Chloë Sevigny, which she takes on eagerly in director Craig William Macneill’s psychological thriller Lizzie, based on the shocking, infamous 1892 murders. It is […]
Co-writer/ director Elio Petri’s admirable Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion [Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto] stars Gian Maria Volontè as a newly elevated police inspector in charge of murder […]
Cult director Phil Karlson’s excellent little-known 1953 film noir crime melodrama 99 River Street is a satisfying walk on the wild side that keeps up a cracking pace from start to finish, with Franz Planer’s […]
The 1950 film noir crime thriller Backfire is a satisfyingly complicated and labyrinthine murder mystery. Gordon MacRae stars as war vet searching for his framed murder-suspect buddy (Edmond O’Brien) and tangling with a femme fatale […]
Director Irving Pichel’s excellent 1947 film noir thriller They Won’t Believe Me stars Robert Young, who is well cast way outside his usual friendly, sympathetic mould in a chilling role as Larry Ballentine, a spineless […]