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ROBERT QUARRY SINKS HIS TEEH INTO 'COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE'

ROBERT QUARRY SINKS HIS TEEH INTO 'COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE' ROBERT QUARRY SINKS HIS TEEH INTO 'COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE'

Title: COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE Year: 1970 Rating: **** A hybrid of late-1960's leading to early-1970's low-budget exploitation horror a...

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LAWRENCE TIERNEY & ANNE JEFFREYS RETURN FOR 'STEP BY STEP'

LAWRENCE TIERNEY & ANNE JEFFREYS RETURN FOR 'STEP BY STEP' LAWRENCE TIERNEY & ANNE JEFFREYS RETURN FOR 'STEP BY STEP'

Lawrence Tierney and Anne Jeffreys in STEP BY STEP Year: 1946 Rating: **** Lawrence Tierney with Anne Jeffreys, the gangster and moll from D...

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LAWRENCE TIERNEY DEAD AS 'DILLINGER' WITH ANNE JEFFREYS

LAWRENCE TIERNEY DEAD AS 'DILLINGER' WITH ANNE JEFFREYS LAWRENCE TIERNEY DEAD AS 'DILLINGER' WITH ANNE JEFFREYS

Anne Jeffreys and Lawrence Tierney in DILLINGER Year: 1945 Rating: ****1/2 In the 1930's through to the 1960's and 1970's, befo...

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LAWRENCE TIERNEY PLAYS THE WRONG MAN IN 'KILL OR BE KILLED'

LAWRENCE TIERNEY PLAYS THE WRONG MAN IN 'KILL OR BE KILLED' LAWRENCE TIERNEY PLAYS THE WRONG MAN IN 'KILL OR BE KILLED'

Title: KILL OR BE KILLED Year: 1950 Rates: ***1/2 The epitome of a crime programmer with a beginning, middle and end, and plenty in-bet...

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LAWRENCE TIERNEY VILLAINIZES 'NAKED CITY: ONE TO GET LOST'

LAWRENCE TIERNEY VILLAINIZES 'NAKED CITY: ONE TO GET LOST' LAWRENCE TIERNEY VILLAINIZES 'NAKED CITY: ONE TO GET LOST'

Lawrence Tierney in Naked City: One To Get Lost Year: 1959 Rating: ***1/2 By the late 1950's, Lawrence Tierney, who was an RKO leading m...

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LAWRENCE TIERNEY & BETTY LAWFORD IN 'THE DEVIL THUMBS A RIDE'

LAWRENCE TIERNEY & BETTY LAWFORD IN 'THE DEVIL THUMBS A RIDE' LAWRENCE TIERNEY & BETTY LAWFORD IN 'THE DEVIL THUMBS A RIDE'

Lawrence Tierney & Betty Lawford in The Devil Thumbs a Ride Year: 1947 Rates: ***1/2 One year after Lawrence Tierney played an affable c...

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LAWRENCE TIERNEY IN 'FEMALE JUNGLE' WITH JAYNE MANSFIELD

LAWRENCE TIERNEY IN 'FEMALE JUNGLE' WITH JAYNE MANSFIELD LAWRENCE TIERNEY IN 'FEMALE JUNGLE' WITH JAYNE MANSFIELD

Title: FEMALE JUNGLE Year: 1955 Jayne Mansfield, Lawrence Tierney Rates: ***1/2 Iconic tough guy Lawrence Tierney, ten years after his hey-...

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LAWRENCE TIERNEY AND JOHN IRELAND IN 'THE BUSHWHACKERS'

LAWRENCE TIERNEY AND JOHN IRELAND IN 'THE BUSHWHACKERS' LAWRENCE TIERNEY AND JOHN IRELAND IN 'THE BUSHWHACKERS'

Title: THE BUSHWHACKERS Year: 1951 Rating: *** By the time Lawrence Tierney turned up in the b-western THE BUSHWHACKERS, his leading man sta...

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SCOTT BRADY & JEFF COREY PRISON ESCAPE NOIR 'CANON CITY'

SCOTT BRADY & JEFF COREY PRISON ESCAPE NOIR 'CANON CITY' SCOTT BRADY & JEFF COREY PRISON ESCAPE NOIR 'CANON CITY'

Title: CANON CITY Year: 1948 Rating: *** The semi-documentary/docudrama film noir device can be awkward, always beginning with real glimpses...

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SCOTT BRADY WITH PEGGY DOW IN WILLIAM CASTLE'S 'UNDERTOW'

SCOTT BRADY WITH PEGGY DOW IN WILLIAM CASTLE'S 'UNDERTOW' SCOTT BRADY WITH PEGGY DOW IN WILLIAM CASTLE'S 'UNDERTOW'

Scott Brady and Peggy Dow in UNDERTOW Year: 1949 Rating: ***1/2 Scott Brady, younger brother of tough guy legend Lawrence Tierney, is thrust...

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DEAN JAGGER AND WILLIAM LUCAS IN HAMMER'S 'X THE UNKNOWN'

DEAN JAGGER AND WILLIAM LUCAS IN HAMMER'S 'X THE UNKNOWN' DEAN JAGGER AND WILLIAM LUCAS IN HAMMER'S 'X THE UNKNOWN'

X THE UNKNOWN Year: 1957 Rates: **** Hammer's science-fiction/horror hybrid X THE UNKNOWN came out the same year as QUATERMASS 2, sequel...

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BARBARA PAYTON IN HAMMER'S 'THE FOUR SIDED TRIANGLE'

BARBARA PAYTON IN HAMMER'S 'THE FOUR SIDED TRIANGLE' BARBARA PAYTON IN HAMMER'S 'THE FOUR SIDED TRIANGLE'

Title: THE FOUR SIDED TRIANGLE (Spanish Translation: OF THE EVIL GENIUS) Year: 1953 Rating: **** Before Hammer's Golden Age of Victorian...

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BARBARA SHELLEY & WILLIAM LUCAS IN 'THE SHADOW OF THE CAT'

BARBARA SHELLEY & WILLIAM LUCAS IN 'THE SHADOW OF THE CAT' BARBARA SHELLEY & WILLIAM LUCAS IN 'THE SHADOW OF THE CAT'

Title: THE SHADOW OF THE CAT Year: 1961 Rating: ** Hammer Films pitted vulnerable humans against a vampire, a werewolf, a mummy, a mad scien...

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RICHARD BASEHART AND MARILYN MAXWELL IN 'OUTSIDE THE WALL'

RICHARD BASEHART AND MARILYN MAXWELL IN 'OUTSIDE THE WALL' RICHARD BASEHART AND MARILYN MAXWELL IN 'OUTSIDE THE WALL'

Title: OUTSIDE THE WALL Year: 1950 Rating: *** Crane Wilber's OUTSIDE THE WALL is three movies in one, and the first two are the best: s...

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TOM CONWAY AS DUKE MARTIN BRITISH CRIME DOUBLE-FEATURE

TOM CONWAY AS DUKE MARTIN BRITISH CRIME DOUBLE-FEATURE TOM CONWAY AS DUKE MARTIN BRITISH CRIME DOUBLE-FEATURE

Title: BREAKAWAY Year: 1956 Rating: ***1/2 BREAKAWAY : Former FALCON Tom Conway in the second Tom 'Duke' Martin private eye flicks m...

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HOWARD DUFF, PEGGY DOW & LAWRENCE TIERNEY IN 'SHAKEDOWN'

HOWARD DUFF, PEGGY DOW & LAWRENCE TIERNEY IN 'SHAKEDOWN' HOWARD DUFF, PEGGY DOW & LAWRENCE TIERNEY IN 'SHAKEDOWN'

Title: THE SHADOW OF THE CAT Year: 1961 Rating: ** In the 1930's James Cagney programmer PICTURE SNATCHER, he plays a photographer who w...

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EDMOND O'BRIEN RACES THROUGH THE CLASSIC FILM NOIR 'D.O.A.'

EDMOND O'BRIEN RACES THROUGH THE CLASSIC FILM NOIR 'D.O.A.' EDMOND O'BRIEN RACES THROUGH THE CLASSIC FILM NOIR 'D.O.A.'

Title: D.O.A. Year: 1959 Director: Rudolph Maté Stars: Edmond O'Brien Rating: **** For one of the most literally deadly-serious film noi...

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BURT LANCASTER IN ROBERT SIODMAK'S HEIST-NOIR 'CRISS CROSS'

BURT LANCASTER IN ROBERT SIODMAK'S HEIST-NOIR 'CRISS CROSS' BURT LANCASTER IN ROBERT SIODMAK'S HEIST-NOIR 'CRISS CROSS'

Title: CRISS CROSS Year: 1949 Rating: *** Burt Lancaster became a breakout star in director Robert Siodmak's complicated heist-noir THE ...

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BURT LANCASTER IN JULES DASSIN'S PRISON NOIR 'BRUTE FORCE'

 BURT LANCASTER IN JULES DASSIN'S PRISON NOIR 'BRUTE FORCE' BURT LANCASTER IN JULES DASSIN'S PRISON NOIR 'BRUTE FORCE'

BRUTE FORCE Year: 1947 Rating: ***1/2 Director Jules Dassin basically made his own post-war World War II picture, only set in an American ho...

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

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

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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CLARK GABLE, MONTOMERY CLIFT & MARILYN MONROE 'THE MISFITS

CLARK GABLE, MONTOMERY CLIFT & MARILYN MONROE 'THE MISFITS CLARK GABLE, MONTOMERY CLIFT & MARILYN MONROE 'THE MISFITS

Title: THE MISFITS Year: 1961 Shown: Clark Gable Rating: ***1/2 Most famous about THE MISFITS is that Clark Gable died right after filming, ...

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DUSTIN HOFFMAN ALONGSIDE JON VOIGHT IN 'MIDNIGHT COWBOY'

DUSTIN HOFFMAN ALONGSIDE JON VOIGHT IN 'MIDNIGHT COWBOY' DUSTIN HOFFMAN ALONGSIDE JON VOIGHT IN 'MIDNIGHT COWBOY'

Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight in MIDNIGHT COWBOY Year: 1969 Rating: ***** A simplistic but mostly naive young man from Texas, Joe Buck, iro...

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DUSTIN HOFFMAN AND TOM CRUISE CRUSING THROUGH 'RAIN MAN'

DUSTIN HOFFMAN AND TOM CRUISE CRUSING THROUGH 'RAIN MAN' DUSTIN HOFFMAN AND TOM CRUISE CRUSING THROUGH 'RAIN MAN'

RAIN MAN Year: 1988 Rating: **** Dustin Hoffman's RAIN MAN character is intentionally annoying since the Barry Levinson Oscar-winning mo...

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DOROTHY MICHAELS STEALS HUGO HASS'S BIZARRE NOIR 'PICKUP'

DOROTHY MICHAELS STEALS HUGO HASS'S BIZARRE NOIR 'PICKUP' DOROTHY MICHAELS STEALS HUGO HASS'S BIZARRE NOIR 'PICKUP'

Beverly Michaels in PICKUP Year: 1951 Rating: **** There's nothing better than when a bad blonde steals a film noir, and none have been ...

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

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

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