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Stanley Baker finds a strong vehicle in Hammer Films’ unusually energetic, atmospheric and swift-moving 1959 vintage crime thriller Hell Is a City, atmospherically shot largely on exteriors in Manchester, and topped of with an exciting, […]
Fancy two hours in the obnoxious company of a notorious Irish criminal called Martin Cahill, apparently a legend for his defiance of authority, relentless battle with the police and his weird family relationships? Well, maybe […]
Hugh Sinclair takes over the halo from George Sanders as Simon Templar in the seventh of the RKO Pictures’ The Saint series, co-written by original author Leslie Charteris and produced and filmed in the UK. […]
Thrilling performances by Harry Baur, as bitter criminal Jean Valjean, and Charles Vanel, as the incredibly dogged policeman Inspector Javert obsessively hunting him down for two decades, light up co-writer/director Raymond Bernard’s esteemed vintage 1934 […]
Director Tod Browning’s vintage 1936 sci-fi horror classic stars Lionel Barrymore as Paul Lavond, a respected banker in Paris framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to Devil’s Island. He finally escapes […]
Director Harald Zwart’s smart and clever 2001 comedy stars Matt Dillon, Paul Reiser and John Goodman as a trio of hapless men who all fall for a beautiful temptress called Jewel (Liv Tyler at her […]
Writer-director John Hamburg’s 1998 comedy crime thriller is a splendidly rum brew. Sam Rockwell and Steve Zahn give effortlessly weird performances as pathetic, self-deluded, low-life crooks way out of their depth in the underworld of […]