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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 […]
Burt Reynolds directs himself as star of the tense, exciting, ultra-tough 1981 cop thriller Sharky’s Machine as Tom Sharky an Atlanta vice cop who heads a new squad (his ‘machine’) hunting a mob boss called Victor […]
Young Juliette Lewis and Brad Pitt show a lot of class and charisma in director Robert Markowitz’s shocking 1989 true-story drama. It is written by David Hill and George Rubino, based on a fact-based story by David […]
Director Hugh Wilson’s 1987 Burglar wastes Whoopi Goldberg as Bernice ‘Bernie’ Rhodenbarr, a cat burglar and bookstore owner, wanted for a murder that she has only witnessed. The dead body is found in a house […]
Sterling Hayden and Gene Barry are ideal, and so is noir favourite Gloria Grahame as bar singer Marianna, in the toughly cast, enjoyable little 1954 crime thriller Naked Alibi, with a moody film noir atmosphere. […]
‘A dozen top stars – five famed directors – bring you the best stories of O. Henry!’ The 20th Century Fox studio’s compendium anthology film of five of O Henry’s most celebrated stories from his New […]
Director Gillian Armstrong’s 1984 drama Mrs Soffel looks good on paper: the then new star Mel Gibson on the crest on a wave, Oscar-winning Diane Keaton in mid-career, and bright new star Matthew Modine in […]