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Director Don Siegel’s resolute and stalwart 1954 thriller tells the story of two disgruntled police officers Cal Bruner and Jack Farnham (Steve Cochran, Howard Duff), who are on the trail of tempting stolen money. A $50 […]
The exciting, intelligent 1973 American dystopian sci-fi thriller film Soylent Green stars Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, and Edward G Robinson in his final film role. Charlton Heston, Edward G Robinson, Joseph Cotten, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck […]
Director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1972 British thriller stars Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier, who obviously relishes one of his last major performances as a cuckolded thriller writer who inveigles his wife’s lover (Caine) in for […]
In 17th century Paris, a peasant boy, young D’Artagnan (Max Dolbey), witnesses the death of his father at the hands of the dastardly villain Febre (Tim Roth) and sets out to join the legendary royal guards […]
Director Roger Corman’s slack 1958 B-movie adventure thriller, filmed on location in Kaua’i back to back with Naked Paradise [Thunder over Hawaii] in 1956, is one of his weakest and worst. Don Durant stars as young criminal Jim who stows away on his brother Chris’s (Bill Cord) […]
The winning 1942 showbiz satirical comedy film Roxie Hart stars Ginger Rogers in an exciting, rousing performance as a trashy Twenties Chicago singer-dancer who seeks out sensational press headlines by confessing to murdering her unfaithful […]
The 2010 remake of True Grit (1969) is a very decent, old-fashioned Western with strong, rock-solid performances. But, with its thin, slim-feeling story and relatively low impact, it is a slight disappointment from directors Ethan Coen and […]