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John Gilling’s 1953 British crime thriller B-film Recoil stars Elizabeth Sellars as a young woman who resolves to bring her jeweller father’s killer (Kieron Moore) to justice by pretending to be in love with him. Writer/ director John Gilling’s […]
The classic 1962 Brit noir B-film Ambush in Leopard Street is set in London but filmed in Ireland, and stars James Kenney, Michael Brennan and Bruce Seton. Director J Henry Piperno’s low-budget 1962 British black and white crime B-film Ambush in […]
The cult 1959 American black and white heist film The St Louis Bank Robbery stars the young Steve McQueen, and is based on the real-life disastrous 1953 Southwest Bank holdup in St Louis, Missouri. Director […]
The likeable 1954 British second feature crime thriller film Dangerous Cargo is inspired by an attempted robbery at Heathrow Airport in 1952, and stars Jack Watling, Susan Stephen, Karel Stepanek, and Terence Alexander. ‘This operation […]
Director George Sherman’s 1948 Universal Pictures Technicolor film Calamity Jane and Sam Bass is a fairly feeble Western plus romance B-movie, with a spunky, overeager-to-please performance by Yvonne De Carlo as Calamity Jane trying to […]
Writer-director Barney Platts-Mills’s 1970 British black and white film Bronco Bullfrog (83 minutes, 35 mm) is a commendable and compelling British low-budget drama (£17,000), showing in realist style life as it was in 1970 for […]
The tense, taut 1956 film noir thriller Man in the Vault is the directorial debut of Andrew V McLaglen. It stars William Campbell, Karen Sharpe and Swedish sexpot Anita Ekberg, who was under contract with […]