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Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Off the Hook: A bedridden heiress glimpses the face of doom in ‘Sorry, Wrong Number’
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Barbara Stanwyck, ‘Sorry, Wrong Number’ (1948). Crossed phone lines deliver chilling news to a woman stranded in her apartment. Post war pro...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
‘Out of the Past’: 13 Signs that Jane Greer is About to Destroy You
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Jane Greer, 'Out of the Past' (1947). Dressed in mink and deadly. Warnings abound, but the only thing Mitchum can sputter is 'Ba...
Sunday, May 11, 2025
The Big Knockoff: 14 Films With Armored Car Heists
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Burt Lancaster, Tom Pedi, “Criss Cross” (1949). Rolling bank vaults a favored target of daring hijackers By Paul Parcellin I f the movies ...
Sunday, April 27, 2025
‘Gun Crazy’ Has a Classic Robbery Scene … But We Never See the Actual Holdup
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John Dall, Peggy Cummins, 'Gun Crazy' (1950). For a dizzying moment spectators become accomplices to a crime By Paul Parcellin “ Gu...
Saturday, April 12, 2025
‘The Long Good Friday’: A Gangster Noir That Saw the Future
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Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, "The Long Good Friday" (1980). Mobster’s World Blown to Bits in an Easter Wave of Terror Contains spoi...
Sunday, March 30, 2025
When Gangsters Collide with the Dark Side: 65 Mobbed Up Films Noir
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Jean Hagen, Sterling Hayden, "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950). In Noir, Racketeers Aren't Like the Ones In Your (Grand)Father'...
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