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The 1947 film noir-style romantic drama The Lost Moment is an attractively atmospheric oddity, based on Henry James’s 1888 novella The Aspern Papers. It greatly alters the characters and adds schizophrenia, a murder and a […]
‘THE IMPOSSIBLE CRIME. THRILLER OF THRILLERS.’ Ken Hughes’s 1955 British black and white crime film Little Red Monkey is a complex, nifty and enjoyable Cold War espionage thriller. Richard Conte and Rona Anderson star. Co-writer/ […]
Humphrey Bogart stars in the 1945 film noir Conflict as a man who kills his wife to swap her for her younger sister (Alexis Smith), only to find his victim may be still alive. Director […]
Don Siegel lucked out with his 1946 feature film directorial début in having one of the Forties crime thriller’s best teams – Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre – heading the foggy London Victorian film noir […]
Warner Bros’ hugely atmospheric and entertaining 1944 classic film noir mystery crime thriller film The Mask of Dimitrios again teams the era’s most iconic star character actors Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Director Jean Negulesco’s […]
The young Jack Nicholson’s presence as a gas station attendant – or petrol pump worker – called Poet confers cult status on director Richard Rush’s interesting and amusingly dated, if rather draggy 1967 biker movie […]
Director Michael Anderson’s tantalising and engrossing 1961 British movie provides Gary Cooper with his final film role. It is an enjoyably convoluted, far-fetched thriller, written by Joseph Stefano, the author of Psycho, adapting Max Ehrlich’s […]