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Written by James M. Tate / 5/27/2026 / No comments / crime , fifties , film noir or melodrama , joan dixon , marguerite churchill , ricardo cortez , robert sterling , undercover

MARGUERITE CHURCHILL & ROBERT STERLING IN 'BUNCO SQUAD'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhatUY2fMxDFxXdjdBTWfLmuVQWAJJoD-ZVTgAphVnU4pRDGaX7G9MfCkyyVRKiU-gUiXCJO13qkpV90oh0kt3La99yuwo-dcnNNG0JwIgDqgdPqXrwxbvSWkDhrPXZ_JO0zw9fAHuahQ5EG5f3V3kJnf5cE4XqSgBBpbZ8LYv1DAI3-d5Uw6zNfr8yalCp/s2106/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-27%20at%206.25.42%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1422" data-original-width="2106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhatUY2fMxDFxXdjdBTWfLmuVQWAJJoD-ZVTgAphVnU4pRDGaX7G9MfCkyyVRKiU-gUiXCJO13qkpV90oh0kt3La99yuwo-dcnNNG0JwIgDqgdPqXrwxbvSWkDhrPXZ_JO0zw9fAHuahQ5EG5f3V3kJnf5cE4XqSgBBpbZ8LYv1DAI3-d5Uw6zNfr8yalCp/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-27%20at%206.25.42%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Marguerite Churchill and Robert Sterling in BUNCO SQUAD Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Sophisticated beauty Marguerite Churchill was an ingenue in the 1930's, classing up horror movies DRACULA'S DAUGHTER and THE WALKING DEAD... the latter featuring suave-villain actor Ricardo Cortez, who, in BUNCO SQUAD, cons the older yet still quite lovely Marguerite to get to her heiress boss: the primary long con despite SQUAD starting out with one of those documentary style narrations... <br><br>Starring handsome Robert Sterling partnered with square-jawed Douglas Fowley and in love with lovely actress Joan Dixon, a Gene Tierney lookalike that winds up undercover to bust what's an intriguing, uncomplicated seance scam that includes backstabbing deaths centered around new age spiritualism, before it was the media's personally-protected religion. </p><span></span>

crime, fifties, film noir or melodrama, joan dixon, marguerite churchill, ricardo cortez, robert sterling, undercover

MARGUERITE CHURCHILL & ROBERT STERLING IN 'BUNCO SQUAD'

Marguerite Churchill and Robert Sterling in BUNCO SQUAD Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2 Sophisticated beauty Marguerite Churchill was an ingenue i...

CHARLIE SHEEN IN THE NEON-NOIR CRIME-THRILLER 'NO MAN'S LAND'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSbFVvGiRJBtS5ONlFbdxHJirN0n__RPan92D9ODP528MIJNYT4GkIepB2nbuWTJ2gVXGPm37qmLauqGQOEBihFkU23-iZoKQavsDdsm5K8SCP6Wsj31hhqxBGLBJ9XpKa2T0TcOTIBVm64wcYRatXhhwaWDyromUVQ0-sLbgcooYR13pAnfrRfuFrT2Ab/s1860/Screen%20Shot%202025-09-23%20at%201.56.51%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1020" data-original-width="1860" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSbFVvGiRJBtS5ONlFbdxHJirN0n__RPan92D9ODP528MIJNYT4GkIepB2nbuWTJ2gVXGPm37qmLauqGQOEBihFkU23-iZoKQavsDdsm5K8SCP6Wsj31hhqxBGLBJ9XpKa2T0TcOTIBVm64wcYRatXhhwaWDyromUVQ0-sLbgcooYR13pAnfrRfuFrT2Ab/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-09-23%20at%201.56.51%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charlie Sheen in NO MAN'S LAND Year: 1987 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Executive Producer Dick Wolfe's 1987 crime-thriller NO MAN'S LAND is said to have influenced the likes of THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS and before that POINT BREAK... and yet the inside-man-befriending-a-dangerous-kingpin-he's-out-to-bust device has been around since WHITE HEAT, THE STREET WITH NO NAME and countless others...<br><br>Herein the central character's second-billed D.B.Sweeney (working for timid chief-detective Randy Quaid), a lowly cop with the specific skills to go undercover as a mechanic at a stolen-car-ring garage... soon meeting young rich owner Charlie Sheen in the Hollywood Hills, starting up his broken-down dream-car and setting the bond between poor vs rich boy in rip-roaring camaraderie...  </p><span></span>

bill duke, brad pitt, charlie sheen, crime, d.b. sweeney, eighties, randy quaid, thriller, undercover

CHARLIE SHEEN IN THE NEON-NOIR CRIME-THRILLER 'NO MAN'S LAND'

Charlie Sheen in NO MAN'S LAND Year: 1987 Rating: ***** Executive Producer Dick Wolfe's 1987 crime-thriller NO MAN'S LAND is sai...

SCOTT BRADY, ANDREA KING & TONY CURTIS 'I WAS A SHOPLIFTER'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQn56qthHKfdrQGTRWnsmfFafTT71dPHghabw50S8GDFIsNAW01qRKXzPGupXKizTcvfPvD_eKrS2Q-6xFwpxU3FkPwCmJFoCoqUH2VTj_S15f1zMykh3Xs2JwhgCFfL6xiNsOxm5iYW2pBdOYTGowHswApdX4m4W1zmbblMMiPktyRIdQ_ZB9-qNomd88/s2060/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-03%20at%2012.28.12%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1106" data-original-width="2060" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQn56qthHKfdrQGTRWnsmfFafTT71dPHghabw50S8GDFIsNAW01qRKXzPGupXKizTcvfPvD_eKrS2Q-6xFwpxU3FkPwCmJFoCoqUH2VTj_S15f1zMykh3Xs2JwhgCFfL6xiNsOxm5iYW2pBdOYTGowHswApdX4m4W1zmbblMMiPktyRIdQ_ZB9-qNomd88/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-03%20at%2012.28.12%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Scott Brady in I WAS A SHOPLIFTER Year: 1950 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>At the end of I WAS A SHOPLIFTER, manipulative brunette crime-syndicate moll Andrea King tells undercover cop Scott Brady that it's too bad he is what he is, right as he's arresting her.. .<br><br>Because no matter how great poor little cute-rich-blonde Mona Freeman is with the handsome Brady, helping her out of a crime-ring after being caught thrill-lifting on her own.. he's exceptionally cool and smooth with Andrea, and they would have <i>truly</i> made a fantastic villainous team...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

action, andrea king, charles watts, exploitation, fifties, film noir or melodrama, gregg martell, mona freeman, rock hudson, scott brady, tony curtis, undercover

SCOTT BRADY, ANDREA KING & TONY CURTIS 'I WAS A SHOPLIFTER'

Scott Brady in I WAS A SHOPLIFTER Year: 1950 Rating: **** At the end of I WAS A SHOPLIFTER, manipulative brunette crime-syndicate moll Andre...

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