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 ’...
Sunday, August 14, 2022

Hey, College Boy, Wanna Rob a Casino?

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Four vets attending college on the GI Bill and a cabaret singer try to rob a Reno casino and  pull off the perfect crime.  ‘Five Against the...
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...