Jacques Becker – Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)
Jacques Becker’s (Le Trou) Touchez Pas Au Grisbi occupies a significant pa...
Sedia elettrica (1969)
Synopsis (possible spoilers):At Santa Monica, during 30s, two contending g...
Leo C. Popkin – The Well (1951)
The Well is a modest but generally effective plea for racial tolerance. Ba...
John Brahm – Singapore (1947)
After WW2, an American skipper returns to Singapore to retrieve his hidden...
Kaizô Hayashi – Waga jinsei saiaku no toki AKA The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1993)
Part One of the Maiku Hama Private Eye Trilogy
Detective Maiku “Mike” Hama...
Henry Hathaway – Kiss of Death (1947)
Small-time crook Nick Bianco gets caught in a jewel heist and despite urgi...
Cy Endfield – The Limping Man (1953)
His Hollywood career temporarily in the doldrums in 1953, Lloyd Bridges he...
Henry Hathaway – Fourteen Hours (1951)
54th New York Film Festival writes:An exciting low-budget film shot on t...
Mark Robson – Edge of Doom (1950)
Martin Lynn (Farley Granger) has crossed his breaking point. Poor, stuck i...
I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes (1948)
I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes (1948)
A dancer is pinned for murder after his...
Norman Foster & Orson Welles – Journey Into Fear (1943)
An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by German a...
Ruthless (1948) by Edgar G. Ulmer
Quote:
Multi-millionaire Horace Woodruff Vendig (Zachary Scott) shows hims...
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Orson Welles – Mr. Arkadin [The Comprehensive Version] (1955)
Synopsis:‘Guy Van Stratten, American smuggler, leaves an Italian prison ...
Nicholas Ray – Knock on Any Door (1949)
Quote:
Andrew Morton is an attorney who made it out of the slums. Nick Rom...