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Director Irving Cummings’s exuberant 1940 Latin American Technicolor musical Down Argentine Way is as light as air and twice as bracing. Above all, it is fun. With the world at war and audiences looking for […]
Something is missing in director John Frankenheimer’s 1986 crime thriller film 52 Pick-Up – credibility, pace, wit and brevity for a start. The Cannon Group remake Elmore Leonard’s 1974 novel just 18 months after their […]
Brian Helgeland’s 1999 neo noir crime thriller film Payback stars Mel Gibson as career thief Porter, who recovers from being double-crossed and left to die to exact revenge and get his share of a bloody heist. […]
In 1954 director George Marshall recycles his own famous 1939 movie hit Destry Rides Again as a vehicle for Universal’s cowboy star, Audie Murphy, now renaming the work simply Destry. A very nearly shot-by-shot remake […]
Don Siegel directs Audie Murphy in the 1958 black and white film noir crime drama The Gun Runners, the fourth version of Ernest Hemingway’s short story novel To Have and Have Not, following To Have […]
Writer-director Barry Pollack’s 1972 Cool Breeze is an interesting if ordinary blaxploitation thriller movie reworking (for the third time) of the 1950 classic The Asphalt Jungle, with a predominately black cast headed by Jim Watkins […]
The 1963 black and white Egypt jewel treasures heist caper thriller film Cairo is one of MGM’s three attempted remakes of the 1950 classic The Asphalt Jungle, with the supposedly ‘perfect’ robbery this time effectively […]