Sunday, October 30, 2011

Wait Until Dark (1967)

IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062467/
IMDb Rating: 7.8/10
Genres: Crime/Drama/Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 108min

Cast
Audrey Hepburn ... Susy Hendrix
Alan Arkin ... Roat / Roat Jr / Roat Sr
Richard Crenna ... Mike Talman
Efrem Zimbalist Jr ... Sam Hendrix
Jack Weston ... Carlino
Samantha Jones ... Lisa

Storyline: Susie's husband is asked to hold a doll for a woman as they get off an airplane. She disappears. Mike and Carlino are small time hoods who find the woman's body in Susie's apartment, placed there by her partner, Harry Rote. Susie's blindness is the key to them searching the apartment for the doll that contains smuggled drugs. Mike pretends to be an old friend of Susie's husband while her husband is away and together the crooks invent a story of a police investigation of her husband that only the discovery of the now missing doll can save him from. Rote is a killer, and his stalking of Susie becomes more and more obvious as the story unfolds, leaving us with the question, how does a blind woman defend herself?

Friday, September 9, 2011

Black Legion (1937)






IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027367/
IMDb Rating: 6.8/10
Genres: Drama/Crime
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 83min

Cast
Humphrey Bogart ... Frank Taylor
Dick Foran ... Ed Jackson
Erin O'Brien-Moore ... Ruth Taylor
Ann Sheridan ... Betty Grogan
Helen Flint ... Pearl Davis

Storyline: Frank Taylor joins the "pro-American" Black Legion when he loses his chance at foremanship to a foreign-born man. The organization is a sort of Ku Klux Klan in the industrial sphere. Frank has troubles with his wife over this and causes serious trouble when he tells all to his best friend Ed Jackson.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Cornered (1945)


IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037615/
IMDb Rating: 6.8/10
Genres: Film-Noir/Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Duration: 102 min

Cast
Dick Powell ... Laurence Gerard
Walter Slezak ... Melchior Incza
Micheline Cheirel ... Mme. Madeleine Jarnac (Laurent)
Nina Vale ... Señora Camargo
Morris Carnovsky ... Manuel Satana
Edgar Barrier ... DuBois, Insurance Man
Steven Geray ... Señor Tomas Camargo

Storyline: On being demobbed at the end of the war, Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard returns to France to discover who ordered the killing of a group of Resistence fighters including his new bride. He identifies Vichy collaborator Marcel Jarnac, who is reported as dead himself. Not believing this, Gerard follows the trail to Argentina where it is apparent that Nazism is also far from dead.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

While The City Sleeps (1956)


IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049949/
IMDb Rating: 7.1/10
Genres: Drama/Film-Noir
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 100 min

Cast
Dana Andrews ... Edward Mobley
Rhonda Fleming ... Dorothy Kyne
George Sanders ... Mark Loving, KNS Chief
Howard Duff ... Lt. Burt Kaufman
Vincent Price ... Walter Kyne
John Drew Barrymore ... Robert Manners
Ida Lupino ... Mildred Donner

Storyline: Death of media magnat Amos Kyne is causing power struggle between his executives. In the meantime New York women become prey of a serial killer. Reporter Edward Mobley is in that circumstances faced with almost impossible missions: to catch the killer, to prevent the media empire from falling into the wrong hands and to save his romantic relationship from break-up.

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)


IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040823/
IMDb Rating: 7.5/10
Genres: Drama/Film-Noir/Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Duration: 89 min

Cast
Barbara Stanwyck ... Leona Stevenson
Burt Lancaster ... Henry Stevenson
Ann Richards ... Sally Hunt Lord
Wendell Corey ... Dr. Alexander
Harold Vermilyea ... Waldo Evans
Ed Bigley ... James Cotterell
William Conrad ... Morano

Storyline: Leona Stevenson is sick and confined to her bed. One night, whilst waiting for her husband to return home, she picks up the phone and accidentally overhears a conversation between two men planning a murder. She becomes increasingly desperate as she tries to work out who the victim is so the crime can be prevented.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Criss Cross (1949)


IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041268/
IMDb Rating: 7.6/10
Genres: Crime/Drama/Film-Noir/Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 88 min

Cast
Burt Lancaster ... Steve Thompson
Yvonne De Carlo ... Anna
Dan Duryea ... Slim Dundee
Stephen McNally ... Pete Ramirez
Tom Pedi ... Vincent
Percy Helton ... Frank

Storyline: Romantic, obsessive Steve Thompson is drawn back to L.A. to make another try for Anna, his former wife. However, Anna belongs now to the L.A. underworld. Steve believes he can rescue her, ignoring the advice and warnings of people who would try to save him. He commits himself to a dangerous course of action that quickly takes everyone somewhere unintended.

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Thieves Highway (1949)


IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041958/
IMDb Rating: 7.8/10
Genres: Drama/Film-Noir/Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 94 min

Cast
Richard Conte ... Nick Garcos
Valentina Cortese ... Rica
Lee J. Cobb ... Mike Figlia
Barbara Lawrence ... Polly Faber
Jack Oakie ... Slob
Millard Mitchell ... Ed Kinney

Storyline: A war-veteran-turned-truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce scofflaw.

Friday, July 1, 2011

Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)






IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102724/
IMDb Rating: 5.0/10
Genres: Drama/Horror/Mystery/Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 96 min

Cast
Anthony Perkins ... Norman Bates
Henry Thomas ... Young Norman Bates
Olivia Hussey ... Norma Bates
CCH Pounder ... Fran Ambrose
Warren Frost ... Dr. Leo Richmond
Donna Mitchell ... Connie Bates
Thomas Schuster ... Chet Rudolph
Sharen Camille ... Holly
Bobbi Evors ...Gloria

Storyline: Norman Bates returns for this "prequel", once more having mommy trouble. This time around he is invited to share memories of mom with a radio talk show host, but the PYSCHO fears that he may kill again for his beloved is impregnated with his child and Norman cannot let another PYSCHO loose in the civilized world.

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Psycho III (1986)






IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091799/
IMDb Rating: 4.9/10
Genres: Horror/Mystery/Romance/Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 93 min

Cast
Anthony Perkins ... Norman Bates
Diana Scarwid ... Maureen Coyle
Jeff Fahey ... Duane Duke
Roberta Maxwell ... Tracy Venable
Hugh Gillin ... Sheriff John Hunt
Lee Garlington ... Myrna

Storyline: Norman Bates is still running his little motel, and he has kept the dressed skeleton he calls mother. One of his guests is a young girl who has left the convent where she lived. To get some help he employs a young man. One day a nosey journalist comes to see him to ask questions about his past.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Psycho II (1983)






IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086154/
IMDb Rating: 6.1/10
Genres: Horror/Mystery/Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 113 min

Cast
Anthony Perkins ... Norman Bates
Vera Miles ... Lila Loomis
Meg Tilly ... Mary Loomis
Robert Loggia ... Dr. Bill Raymond
Dennis Franz ... Warren Toomey
Hugh Gillin ... Sheriff John Hunt

Storyline: Now declared legally sane, Norman Bates is released from a mental institution after spending 22 years in confinement over the protests of Marion Crane's sister Lila Loomis, who insists that he's still a killer and that the court's indifference to his victims by releasing him is a gross miscarriage of justice. Norman returns to his motel and the old Victorian mansion where his troubles started, and history predictably begins to repeat itself.

Monday, June 20, 2011

Psycho (1960)






IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054215/
IMDb Rating: 8.7/10
Genres: Horror/Mystery/Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 109 min

Cast
Anthony Perkins ... Norman Bates
Vera Miles ... Lila Crane
John Gavin ... Sam Loomis
Janet Leigh ... Marion Crane
Martin Balsam ... Det. Milton Arbogast
John McIntire ... Sheriff Al Chambers

Storyline: Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)


IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048261/
IMDb Rating: 7.7/10
Genres: Crime/Drama/Film-Noir/Mystery/Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 106 min

Cast

Ralph Meeker ... Mike Hammer
Albert Dekker ... Dr. G.E. Soberin
Paul Stewart ... Carl Evello
Juano Hernandez ... Eddie Yeager
Wesley Addy ... Lt. Pat Murphy
Marian Carr ... Friday
Maxine Cooper ... Velda
Cloris Leachman ... Christina Bailey

Storyline: Tough L.A. private eye Mike Hammer gives a ride to Christina, a frightened young woman he finds running along the road one night. His car is run off the road by unseen thugs. Hammer is knocked out and Christina is tortured in an unsuccessful attempt to get information from her. They are put back into Hammer's car which then is forced off a cliff. Hammer wakes up in the hospital. Velda, his trusty secretary, informs him that Christina is dead. Pat Chambers, Mike's policeman friend, tells him to stay off the case, but Mike thinks it might be a big story--meaning big money for him--because the FBI is interested. He, Velda, and Nick, his garage mechanic friend, start investigating in hopes of finding out why Christina was killed.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

The Return Of Doctor X (1939)


IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031851/
IMDb Rating: 5.5/10
Genres: Horror/Mystery/Sci-Fi/Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 62 min

Cast

Wayne Morris ... Walter 'Wichita' Garrett
Rosemary Lane ... Joan Vance
Humphrey Bogart ... Dr. Maurice Xavier, aka Marshall Quesne
Dennis Morgan ... Dr. Mike Rhodes
John Litel  ... Dr. Francis Flegg
Lya Lys ... Angela Merrova
Huntz Hall ... Pinky

Storyline: New York newspaper reporter Walter Barnett finds himself out of a job after he claims to have found actress Angela Merrova dead in her apartment - only the next day she showed up alive and threatened to sue the paper. Determined to investigate he discovers her involvement with a strange doctor who is an expert on human blood. Barnett then finds a connection to a series of gruesome murders where the victims were all found drained of blood.

Friday, June 10, 2011

Flamingo Road (1949)


IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041373/
IMDb Rating: 6.9/10
Genres: Drama/Romance
Country: USA
Language: English
Duration: 94 min

Cast

Joan Crawford ... Lane Bellamy
Zachary Scott ... Fielding Carlisle
Sydney Greenstreet ... Sheriff Titus Semple
David Brian ... Dan Reynolds
Gladys George ... Lute Mae Sanders
Virginia Huston ... Annabelle Weldon

Storyline: Carnival dancer Lane Bellamy finds herself stranded in a southern town ruled by corrupt political boss Titus Semple. Lane becomes romantically involved with sheriff Fielding Carlisle, a weakling whose career is being driven by Titus. Seeing Lane as a liability to his own political ambitions, Titus mounts a campaign to get her driven out of town. She finds she can't get a job and even gets arrested on a trumped-up morals charge. Released from jail, Lane finds work as a "hostess" at Lutie-Mae's road house, where she meets Dan Reynolds, another member of the town's political machine. They marry and move to a home on Flamingo Road, the town's social pinnacle. Their marriage is soon marked by scandal when a drunken Carlisle visits Lane at home one evening and shoots himself.

Monday, June 6, 2011

Tokyo Joe (1949)


IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041967/
IMDb Rating: 6.2/10
Genres: Drama/Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English/Japanese
Runtime: 88 min

Cast

Humphrey Bogart ... Joseph 'Joe' Barrett
Alexander Knox ... Mark Landis
Florence Marly ... Trina Pechinkov Landis
Sessue Hayakawa ... Baron Kimura
Jerome Courtland ... Danny
Gordon Jones ... Idaho
Teru Shimada ... Ito
Hideo Mori ... Kanda
Rhys Williams ... Col. Dahlgren

Storyline: Joe Barrett returns to Tokyo after World War II where he once owned a bar, Tokyo Joe's, and deserted his wife Trina. They have a seven-year-old daughter. Kimura forces Joe into piloting war criminals by revealing that during the war Trina made treasonous propaganda broadcasts.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

'G' Men (1935)


IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026393/
IMDb Rating: 7.2/10
Genres: Action/Crime/Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 85 min

Cast

James Cagney ... 'Brick' Davis
Margaret Lindsay ... Kay McCord
Ann Dvorak ... Jean Morgan
Robert Armstrong ... Jeff McCord
Barton MacLane ... Collins
Lloyd Nolan ... Hugh Farrell
William Harrigan ... 'Mac' McKay

Storyline: It's the early days of the F.B.I. - federal agents working for the Department of Justice. Though they've got limited powers - they don't carry weapons and have to get local police approval for arrests - that doesn't stop fresh Law School grad Eddie Buchanan from joining up, and he encourages his former roommate James "Brick" Davis (James Cagney) to do so as well. But Davis wants to be an honest lawyer, not a shyster, despite his ties to mobster boss McKay, and he's intent on doing so, until Buchanan is gunned down trying to arrest career criminal Danny Leggett. Davis soon joins the "G-Men" as they hunt down Leggett (soon-to-be Public Enemy Number One) and his cronies Collins and Durfee, who are engaged in a crime and murder spree from New York to the midwest.

Friday, May 27, 2011

Hold Up (1985)


IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089284/
IMDb Rating: 6.5/10
Genres: Comedy/Crime
Country: Canada/France
Language: English/French
Runtime: 114 min

Cast

Jean-Paul Belmondo ... Grimm
Kim Cattrall ... Lise
Guy Marchand ... Georges
Jean-Pierre Marielle ... Simon Labrosse
Jacques Villeret ... Jeremie
Jean-Claude de Goros ... Inspecteur Fox
Tex Konig ... Lasky

Storyline: Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune. But then an unsatisfied companion arouses trouble.

Friday, May 20, 2011

The Lady Gambles (1949)


IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041572/
IMDb Rating: 6.8/10
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 99 min

Cast

Barbara Stanwyck ... Joan Phillips Boothe
Robert Preston ... David Boothe
Stephen McNally ... Horace Corrigan
Edith Barrett ... Ruth Phillips
John Hoyt ... Dr. Rojac
Elliott Sullivan ... Barky
John Harmon ... Frenchy

Storyline: When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)


IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042648/
IMDb Rating: 7.1/10
Genres: Crime/Film-Noir/Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 102 min

Cast:

James Cagney ... Ralph Cotter
Barbara Payton ... Holiday Carleton
Helena Carter ... Margaret Dobson
Ward Bond ... Insp. Charles Weber
Luther Adler ... Keith 'Cherokee' Mandon
Barton MacLane ... Lt. John Reece
Steve Brodie ... Joe 'Jinx' Raynor
Rhys Williams ... Vic Mason

Storyline: From the trial of the survivors, we flash back to amoral crook Ralph Cotter's violent prison break, assisted by Holiday Carleton, sister of another prisoner who doesn't make it. Soon Ralph manipulates the grieving Holiday into his arms, and two crooked cops follow her into his pocket. Ralph's total lack of scruple brings him great success in a series of robberies. But his easy conquest of gullible heiress Margaret Dobson proves more dangerous to him than any crime.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Double Indemnity (1973)


IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070000/
IMDb Rating: 5.0/10
Genres: Crime/Thriller/Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 75 min

Cast

Richard Crenna ... Walter Neff
Lee J. Cobb ... Barton Keyes
Samantha Eggar ... Phyllis Dietrickson
Robert Webber ... Edward Norton
Arch Johnson ... Dietrickson
Kathleen Cody ... Lola Dietrickson
John Elerick ... Donald Franklin

Storyline: A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator's boss, not knowing he's involved in it, suspects murder and sets out to solve it.

Double Indemnity (1944)


IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036775/
IMDb Rating: 8.6/10
Genres: Crime/ Film-Noir/Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 107 min

Cast

Fred MacMurray ... Walter Neff
Barbara Stanwyck ... Phyllis Dietrichson
Edward G. Robinson ... Barton Keyes
Porter Hall ... Mr. Jackson
Jean Heather ... Lola Dietrichson
Tom Powers ... Mr. Dietrichson
Byron Barr ... Nino Zachetti
Richard Gaines ... Edward S. Norton, Jr

Storyline: In 1938, the experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co. Walter Neff meets the seductive wife of one of his client, Phyllis Dietrichson, and they have an affair. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband Dietrichson to receive the prize of an accident insurance policy and Walter plots a scheme to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. When Mr. Dietrichson is found dead on the trails of a train, the police accepts the evidence of accidental death. However, the insurance analyst and Walter's best friend Barton Keyes does not buy the version and suspects that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Dial 1119 (1950)


IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042397/
IMDb Rating: 6.7/10
Genres: Film-Noir/Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Duration: 75 min

Cast

Marshall Thompson ... Gunther Wyckoff
Virginia Field ... Freddy
Andrea King ... Helen
Sam Levene ... Dr. John D. Faron
Leon Ames ... Earl
Keefe Brasselle ... Skip
Richard Rober ... Police Capt. Henry Keiver
James Belle ... Harrison D. Barnes
William Conrad ... Chuckles - Bartender

Storyline: A young mentally-ill killer, Gunther Wyckoff, escapes from a mental institution, murder a bus driver and, then, takes six hostages in a bar. The gun in Wyckoff's hand kills without emotion or pity wielded by a man bare of emotion. Begins as a moral question whether an insane killer should or should not be sent to the electric, but goes elsewhere before it ends.

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Mildred Pierce (1945)


IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037913/
IMDb Rating: 8.0/10
Genres: Drama/Film-Noir/Mystery/Romance
Country: USA
Language: English
Duration: 111min

Cast

Joan Crawford ... Mildred Pierce
Jack Carson ... Wally Fay
Zachary Scott ... Monte Beragon
Eve Arden ... Ida Corwin
Ann Blyth ... Veda Pierce
Bruce Bennett ... Bert Pierce

Storyline: Mildred Pierce dotes on her daughters while husband Bert looks to Maggie Binderhof for affection. They soon divorce, leaving Mildred to raise the girls on her own. Elder daughter Veda goads her mother about their lack of money and in response Mildred proposes opening a small restaurant. Realtor Wally Fay advises her while making numerous rebuffed passes and introduces her to Monte Baragon whose property becomes the first of a chain of restaurants. Mildred has an affair with Monte. Meanwhile, money-hungry Veda pretends to be pregnant by wealthy Ted Forrester in order to bilk his family of $10,000. Mildred tears up the check, is slapped by Veda, and orders her daughter to leave. After time away, Mildred returns to find Veda singing in a cheap club. Veda will return only if Mildred promises luxury, so Mildred agrees to marry Monte in exchange for a third of her businesses. It soon becomes clear that something is going on between Veda and Monte...

Friday, April 29, 2011

Topkapi (1964)


IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058672/
IMDb Rating: 7.1/10
Genres: Adventure/Crime/Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 120min

Cast

Melina Mercouri ... Elizabeth Lipp
Peter Ustinov ... Arthur Simon Simpson
Maximilian Schell ... Walter Harper
Robert Morley ... Cedric Page
Jess Hahn ... Hans Fisher

Storyline: A small-time con-man with passport problems gets mixed up with a gang of world-class jewelry thieves plotting to rob the Topkapi museum in Istanbul. Turkish intelligence, suspecting arms smuggling, gets involved, and under pressure the con-man rises to heights he'd never dreamed of.

Friday, April 22, 2011

Lady In The Lake (1947)


IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039545/
IMDb Rating: 6.6/10
Genres: Crime/Film-Noir/Mystery
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 105min

Cast

Robert Montgomery ... Phillip Marlowe
Audrey Totter ... Adrienne Fromsett
Lloyd Nolan ... Lt. DeGarmot
Tom Tully ... Capt. Kane
Leon Ames ... Derace Kingsby
Jayne Meadows ... Mildred Havelend
Dick Simmons ... Chris Lavery

Storyline: The camera shows Phillip Marlowe's view from the first-person in this adaptation of Raymond Chandler's book. The detective is hired to find a publisher's wife, who is supposed to have run off to Mexico. But the case soon becomes much more complicated as people are murdered.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Arsenic And Old Lace (1944)


IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036613/
IMDb Rating: 8.1/10
Genres: Comedy
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 118min

Cast

Cary Grant ... Mortimer Brewster
Priscilla Lane ... Elaine Harper
Raymond Massey ... Jonathan Brewster
Jack Carson ... O'Hara
Edward Everett Horton ... Mr. Whiterspoon
Peter Lorre ... Dr. Einstein

Storyline: Mortimer Brewster is a newspaperman and author known for his diatribes against marriage. We watch him being married at city hall in the opening scene. Now all that is required is a quick trip home to tell Mortimer's two maiden aunts. While trying to break the news, he finds out his aunts' hobby; killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar. It gets worse.

Friday, April 8, 2011

The Killing (1956)


IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049406/
IMDb Rating: 8.2/10
Genres: Crime/Film Noir/Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 85min

Cast

Sterling Hayden ... Johnny Clay
Coleen Gray ... Fay
Vince Edwards ... Val Cannon
Jay C. Flippen ... Marvin Unger
Ted de Corsia ... Policeman Randy Keenan
Marie Windsor ... Sherry Peatty
Elisha Cook Jr. ... George Peatty
Joe Sawyer ... Mike O'Reilly
Timothy Carey ... Nikki Arcane

Storyline: After getting out of prison, Johnny Clay masterminds a complex race-track heist, but his scheme is complicated by the intervention of the wife of a teller (George Peatty) in on the scheme, the boyfriend of the wife, airport regulations, and a small dog.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Prime Cut (1972)


IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069121/
IMDb Rating: 6.8/10
Genres: Action/Crime/Drama/Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 88 min

Cast

Lee Marvin ... Nick Devlin
Gene Hackman ... Mary Ann
Angel Tompkins ... Clarabelle
Gregory Walcott ... Weenie
Sissy Spacek ... Poppy

Storyline: A Chicago mob enforcer is sent to Kansas City to settle a debt with a cattle rancher who not only grinds his enemies into sausage, but sells women as sex slaves.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Le Marginal (1983)


IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085900/
IMDb Rating: 5.9/10
Genres: Action/Crime/Drama/Thriller
Country: France
Language: French
Runtime: 100 min

Cast

Jean-Paul Belmondo ... Commissaire Philippe Jordan
Henry Silva ... Sauveur Meccacci
Carlos Sotto Mayor ... Livia Maria Dolores
Pierre Vernier ... Inspecteur Rojinski
Maurice Barrier ... Tonton
Claude Brosset ... Antonio Baldi
Tchéky Karyo ... Francis Pierron

Storyline: Commissaire Jordan is a tough cop. He's after a powerful drug cartel working out in Paris and Marseille led by Meccaci. He goes to some sleazy districts in those cities asking questions and punching all the way. Also, he tries to revenge the death of his best friend in a car chase. As a bonus, the music of Ennio Morricone is beautiful.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

One Good Cop (1991)




IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102593/
IMDb Rating: 5.5/10
Genres: Action/Crime/Drama/Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 114 min

Cast

Michael Keaton ... Artie Lewis
Rene Russo ... Rita Lewis
Anthony LaPaglia ... Stevie Diroma
Kevin Conway ... Lieutenant Danny Quinn
Rachel Ticotin ... Grace
Tony Plana ... Beniamino
Benjamin Bratt ... Felix

Storyline: When cop Artie's colleague and friend is shot in a police operation, he and his wife Rita want to adopt his three little children. But they have to realize that their income doesn't suffice for the required larger apartment. So Artie decides to take the money from the drug-dealing mobster Benjamino.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

L'alpagueur (1976)


IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074123/
IMDb Rating: 6.2/10
Genres: Action/Crime/Thriller
Country: France
Language: French
Runtime: 110 min

Cast

Jean-Paul Belmondo ... Roger Pilard, dit l'Alpagueur
Bruno Cremer ... L'Epervier
Jean Négroni ... Spitzer
Patrick Fierry ... Costa Valdez
Jean-Pierre Jorris ... Salicetti
Victor Garrivier ... Doumecq
Claude Brosset ... Granier

Storyline: L'Alpagueur is a free-lance spy from the French secret agency. He's put on the investigation about L'epervier, a serial-killer who employs young boys to help him robbing banks before killing them.