Wednesday, September 21, 2022

‘L.A. Confidential’: Wounded Cops Take On the System

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From left, Det. Ed Exly (Guy Pearce), Det.  Bud White (Russell Crowe) and Det. Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey). "L.A. Confidential" ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Noir Directors and their Eyepatches

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An eyepatch can make a director look like a badass and that's a good thing in the famously brutal movie biz. Sure, a lot of them are sca...
Thursday, September 8, 2022

Driving a Stake through Swinging London’s Heart

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Turner (Mick Jagger), left, keeps watch over Chas (James Fox) in 'Performance' (1970). Just another a drug-induced, decadent, rock ’...
Tuesday, August 9, 2022

What, Another Insurance Man is Out to Beat the System?

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Charles McGraw holds a gun on worrying Peter Brocco in 'Roadblock.' O n the face of it, “Roadblock” (1951) is a tall tale filled wit...
Friday, July 8, 2022

A Cache of Hot Money Fires Up ‘Private Hell 36’

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Det. Jack Farnham (Howard Duff) and wife Francey (Dorothy Malone) in 'Private Hell 36' (1955). W e’re in a New York City office buil...
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Thursday, June 30, 2022

Out of the Shadows (and onto the Cathode Ray Tube)

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Raymond Burr in 'Pitfall' (1948). Film noir heavies and second bananas of the 1940s got respectable in the late ‘50s and ‘60s when t...
Monday, June 20, 2022

‘The Big Clock’: Time Runs Short for Crime Mag Editor

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  Charles Laughton and Ray Milland in 'The Big Clock.' A t first glance, “The Big Clock” is merely a workplace crime drama set in a ...