Written by James M. Tate / 8/25/2020 / No comments / british neo noir , british new wave , caper , dilys watling , george martin , heist , john rutland , sixties , terence cooper , warren mitchell , william lucas
WILLIAM LUCAS RISKS ENGLAND'S BIG FREEZE IN 'CALCULATED RISK'
William Lucas smokes in the snow for CALCULATED RISK in freezing 1963 Rating: ***1/2 Low-budget thriller has THE BREAK baddie and overall c...
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Written by James M. Tate / 8/23/2020 / No comments / brian weske , british new wave , charles saunders , david mccallum , faye craig , guido coen , howard pays , jill ireland , joy webster , julie shearing , kenneth cope , marian collins , sixties , stripper , vanda hudson
BRITISH NEO NOIR 'JUNGLE STREET' AKA 'JUNGLE STREET GIRLS'

David McCallum and Gillian Watt with Anne Scott in JUNGLE STREET aka JUNGLE STREET GIRLS Year: 1960 After having met and married after w...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/19/2020 / No comments / british film noir/melodrama , carol reed , cyril cusack , dan o'herlihy , drama , forties , IRA , james mason , kathleen ryan , robert beatty , thriller
CAROL REED'S BELFAST NOIR 'ODD MAN OUT' WITH JAMES MASON

Robert Beatty bribes an urchin for help YEAR: 1947 James Mason is always intense, even when he's playing comedy, and this is no com...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/18/2020 / No comments / annette whiteley , british new wave , drama , family , james maxwell , melodrama , rachel roberts , sixties
RACHEL ROBERTS & ANNETTE WHITELEY IN 'GIRL ON APPROVAL'

Annette Whiteley in GIRL ON APPROVAL Year: 1962 If you didn't know the plot going in... that fourteen-year-old Sheila is an unwanted...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/16/2020 / No comments / anthony booth , british , british neo noir , british new wave , crime , david gregory , derek francis , glynn edwards , jacqueline ellis , jazz score , jim o'connolly , sixties
JIM O'CONNOLLY DIRECTS JACQUELINE ELLIS IN 'THE HI-JACKERS'

Opening title sequence for THE HI-JACKERS circa 1963 Writer/director Jim O'Connolly should be well known for two films where the cul...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/14/2020 / No comments / 2020 , linda manz , tribute
CULT ACTRESS LINDA MANZ IS GONE BUT SHE'S NOT FORGOTTEN

Linda Manz born August 20, 1961 died August 14, 2020 here in THE WANDERERS Rest in Peace to one of the most unique cult actresses of all...
WILLIAM TALMAN MAKING 'THE RACKET' WITH ROBERT MITCHUM

The Racket Year: 1951 stars: Robert Mitchum Rating: ***1/2 While primarily focusing on the two leads, Robert Mitchum as a determined c...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/13/2020 / No comments / adaptation , dana andrews , drama , forties , j.d. salinger , kent smith , mark robson , melodrama , robert keith , romance , susan hayward
SUSAN HAYWARD AND DANA ANDREWS STIR 'MY FOOLISH HEART'

Title: MY FOOLISH HEART Year: 1949 Rating: *** J.D. Salinger's short story "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" was adapted, to ...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/12/2020 / No comments / adele jergens , dana andrews , farley granger , fifties , film noir or melodrama , mala powers , mark robson , paul stewart , robert keith , thriller
DANA ANDREWS AND FARLEY GRANGER IN 'EDGE OF DOOM'
Title: EDGE OF DOOM aka STRONGER THAN FEAR Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2 The idea of a Catholic Film Noir isn't so strange being that the &...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/11/2020 / No comments / comedy , david tomlinson , eighties , helen mirren , lynne frederick , parody , peter sellers , sid caesar , steve franken
PETER SELLERS ENDS WITH 'THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANCHU'

Artwork for THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANCHU Year: 1980 What Peter Sellers' final motion picture, THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANC...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/09/2020 / No comments / action , fifties , film noir or melodrama , heist , john dall , peggy cummins , road movie , russ tamblyn
PEGGY CUMMINS & JOHN DALL IN THE NOIR ROAD FLICK 'GUN CRAZY'

Poster with John Dall and Peggy Cummins dead in love for GUN CRAZY Year: 1950 The Femme Fatale, you know, the bad girl with the great fa...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/05/2020 / No comments / action , adventure , alfred hitchcock , carolyn conwell , cold war , espionage , julie andrews , paul newman , russia , science , suspense , thriller , wolfgang kieling
PAUL NEWMAN DEFECTS ALFRED HITCHOCK'S 'TORN CURTAIN'

Paul Newman battling Wolfgang Kieling Year: 1966 Rating: *** Alfred Hitchcock's Cold War Thriller TORN CURTAIN brings back the auteu...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/02/2020 / No comments / ann lynn , british neo noir , british new wave , colin gordon , crime , derren nesbitt , guido coen , heist , keith faulkner , race against time , suspense
ANN LYNN LOCKED IN THE BRITISH NEO NOIR 'STRONGROOM'

Poster for STRONGROOM Year: 1962 Rates: ***1/2 STRONGROOM is an important early-1960's British crime films as it underlines what you won...
STANLEY BAKER TRUCKIN' WITH PEGGY CUMMINS IN 'HELL DRIVERS'

Stanley Baker leads THE HELL DRIVERS Year: 1957 With the cheating aid of that kind of sped-up effect used long ago on Keystone Cop short...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK TAKING ON COLD WAR CUBA FOR 'TOPAZ'

Frederick Stafford & Claude Jade 1969 Rating: ***1/2 In Alfred Hitchcock's underrated Cold War Thriller TOPAZ, by the time there...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/01/2020 / No comments / horror , john schlesinger , matthew modine , melanie griffith , michael keaton , neo noir , nineties , thriller
JOHN SCHLESIGNER'S GLOSSY YUPPIE HORROR 'PACIFIC HEIGHTS'

PACIFIC HEIGHTS Year: 1990 Rates: **1/2 One of those Premise Thrillers: This one about a renter renting from a young couple who bought a Sa...
WES CRAVEN'S ORIGINAL EXPLOITATION 'THE HILLS HAVE EYES'

Not one horror film geek hasn't had a crush on Suze Lanier in THE HILLS HAVE EYES Year: 1977 THE HILLS HAVE EYES is generally regard...
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Ray Liotta as Henry Hill in GOODFELLAS The one thing GOODFELLAS had going that set it apart from all the inferior clones is Ray Liotta, the ...
