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EDMOND O'BRIEN KILLS THE BAD COP NOIR 'SHIELD FOR MURDER'

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Charles Bronson in LOVE AND BULLETS Year: 1979 Rating: *** For some, during Charles Bronson's Cannon era, sadly gone felt the MGM days. ...

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MIKE HODGES DIRECTS A KILLER MICHAEL CAINE IN 'GET CARTER'

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Title: GET CARTER Year: 1971 Rating: ***** The plot of director Mike Hodges' GET CARTER is simple enough: London-based gangster Michael ...

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DIRECTOR MIKE HODGES BEATS MICHAEL CAINE TO A BREEZY 'PULP'

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HUMPHREY BOGART'S CAREER SKYROCKETS FROM 'HIGH SIERRA'

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title: HIGH SIERRA year: 1941 cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Alan Curtis, Joan Leslie, Arthur Kennedy rating: **** There's ...

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TECHNICOLOR 'HIGH SIERRA' REMAKE 'I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES'

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Title: I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES Year: 1955 Rating: ***1/2 It's strange that I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES, the 1955 practically scene-for-scene...

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Title: FOOD OF THE GODS Year: 1976 Rating: ***1/2 When cult director Bert I. Gordon was a forgotten legend of 1950's and 1960's driv...

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ROBERT BLAKE TRIBUTE OF CULT CLASSIC 'ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE'

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title: ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE year: 1973 rating: ****1/2 In 1973, cops got their very own EASY RIDER in ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE, both involving...

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ROBERT BLAKE LEADS 'THE PURPLE GANG' WITH JOSEPH TURKEL

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ROBERT BLAKE AND TIMOTHY CAREY 'REVOLT IN THE BIG HOUSE'

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Title: REVOLT IN THE BIG HOUSE Year: 1958 Rating: **** In most prison flicks, whenever a convict returns from solitary confinement... a week...

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ROBERT BLAKE 'RIPPED-OFF' AS 'THE BOXER' IN 'COUNTER PUNCH'

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Robert Blake in Ripped-Off YEAR: 1972 Released: 1975 Rates: ***1/2 In RIPPED-OFF, originally titled THE BOXER and also going by COUNTER P...

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ROBERT BLAKE & SCOTT WILSON BREAKTHROUGH 'IN COLD BLOOD'

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Title: IN COLD BLOOD Director: Richard Brooks Year: 1967 Rating: ***** Made in the late-1960's leading to the early-1970's American ...

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ENLARGING BERT I. GORDON'S CULT CLASSIC 'EMPIRE OF THE ANTS'

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Title: EMPIRE OF THE ANTS Year: 1977 Rating: **** Cult director Bert I. Young peaked during the 1970's, bringing his previous two decade...

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STANLEY BAKER AND LAURENCE HARVEY IN 'THE GOOD DIE YOUNG'

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Title: THE GOOD DIE YOUNG Year: 1954 Rating: ***1/2 Lewis Gilbert's London-set Noir/Melodrama would lack some of the Melodrama without t...

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DON SIEGEL'S VERSION OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S 'THE KILLERS'

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Title: THE KILLERS Year: 1964 Rating: **** Ernest Hemingway's 1927 short-story THE KILLERS is indeed quite short, mostly taking place i...

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BURT LANCASTER IN HEMINGWAY'S PULP FICTION 'THE KILLERS'

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Title: THE KILLERS Year: 1946 Rating: **** Little did Ernest Hemingway know, when he created the very short short-story THE KILLERS, that he...

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STANLEY BAKER AND GINGER ROGERS IN 'BEAUTIFUL STRANGER'

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Title: BEAUTIFUL STRANGER AKA TWIST OF FATE Year: 1954 Rating: ***1/2 "I stole it... I am innocent," Herbert Lom says to Stanley B...

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STANLEY BAKER IN 'VIOLENT PLAYGROUND' WITH PETER CUSHING

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Title: VIOLENT PLAYGROUND Year: 1958 Rates: **** A year after playing brothers in HELL DRIVERS , making Stanley Baker famous and putting cam...

STANLEY BAKER TRUCKS WITH PEGGY CUMMINS IN 'HELL DRIVERS'

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Title: HELL DRIVERS Year: 1957 Rating: **** Cheating with the sped-up effect ala Keystone Cop films, the hauling-trucks for HELL DRIVERS pic...

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TOM COURTENAY 'THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER'

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Title: THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER Year: 1962 Rating: ***** Although SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING gets credit for igniti...

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ZENA WALKER & DENNIS WATERMAN IN THE DRAMA 'SNOWBALL'

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Zena Walker in SNOWBALL Year: 1960 Rating: *** A unique British New Wave/Kitchen Sink melodrama involving how fate works... not the first ...

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VAL GUEST DIRECTS STANLEY BAKER IN HAMMER'S 'HELL IS A CITY'

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Poster Art of John Crawford & Lois Daine for HELL IS A CITY Year: 1960 Rates: *** * * The second and final Hammer feature with Val Guest...

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SYLVESTER STALLONE & TOM SIZEMORE IN JOHN FLYNN'S 'LOCK UP'

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  title: LOCK UP year: 1989 cast: Sylvester Stallone, Donald Sutherland, Tom Sizemore rating: ***1/2 Somewhere within the corny, bombas...

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STEVE COCHRAN & LIZABETH SCOTT IN VAL GUEST'S 'THE WEAPON'

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Title: THE WEAPON Year: 1957 Rating: **** Post War British a decade past, hence the genuine bombed-out ruins where a pistol (THE WEAPON) is ...

BURT REYNOLDS AND CLINT EASTWOOD TEAM FOR 'CITY HEAT'

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Title: City Heat Stars: Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds Year: 1984 Rating: *** Remembering the time, as a young action movie fan, when realiz...