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It has just the right touch of gritty violence that any professional "by-the-numbers" crime job must employ.
There have been many films about crime victims.
Firslty, Jules Dassin directed and acted in this extremely imaginative and different film noir crime film.
The producers of Rififi asked them to film their, surprisingly, (I quote Jules Dassin in a recent interview on the subject, "surprisingly, for some not very obvious reason, they were delighted at the idea of a crime film being set in their shop).
TOUGH LUCK follows a homeless drifter as he becomes entangled in the underground crime world of deception and chaos.
I've been a fan of Dennis Farina since 'Crime Story,' another late, lamented show.
Crime solvers and a good team and a dash of humour at the end.
As a crime thriller it's not terribly original or overwhelming and the action scenes will not blow you away but it has something else going for it.
Andy Lau and Lau Ching-Wan are both superb in Johnny To's tautly directed crime thriller which puts most Western efforts to shame.
It is a crime comedy of the same ilk as Snatch etc, and it manages to nicely balance elements of suspense with comedy.
Originally intended for John Boorman but in the end directed by the star himself, it's an out-and-out commercial package with Reynolds a narc who gets busted down to the Vice Squad (literally - they're in the basement) who sets out to nail a mysterious crime lord who is backing Earl Holliman as the next governor.
When some of the crime underworld from his past learn of his position they plan to exploit it and rob the bank.
The young rich woman who is so bored that she sexually taunts the eventual victims, the reporter who likes to tamper with a crime scene to get a better photo shot, the townswoman with a mentally retarded daughter, the local witch, the town idiot....the list goes on, and you have to keep mental notes like a true game to play and solve.
Born Bad is a well put together crime drama about a group of teenage kids.
Tracy and Matt, Michelle and Sebastian: these are the two couples whose lives of addiction, crime, and squalor are brilliantly captured in this raw and honest HBO documentary.
As "real life" crime or cops go-- and plot, for that matter-- it is pretty illogical, but DUH--- this is a comedy.
After World War II the ungoing crime in Phenix City, Alabama, encouraged by the money from an Army base just across the river in Georgia, got even worse.
Gambling, prostitution, loan sharking, and the like helped an organized crime apparatus in the city.
Roy Scheider is a member of an elite police task group called The Seven Ups, which are 5 guys that fight crime undercover.
Think of Lloyd in his first talkie, WELCOME DANGER, trying to "assist" the San Francisco Police Department in the midst of a crime wave, and making police sergeant Edgar Kennedy want to kill him.
His methods of making the punishment fit the crime would likely be illegal, but this is not a movie based on reality.
Why were they allowed to contaminate the crime scene and bulldoze the compound shortly after the incident?
I think it's a little bit influenced by the Brazilian movie "City of God", but maybe this parallelism between the two tracks possible to follow (crime and art) in social neighborhood are a reality.
Especially during the first part it is an elaborate crime picture, that uses the SF premise to tell an unusual crime story in which the forced detective tries to solve a mystery with the obstacle of vanishing characters and unhelpful witnesses who don't have to lie to be unhelpful.
So are we saying then that it is right to torture someone who is guilty of a crime?
ONE GOOD THING: This hidden treasure of a crime drama is incredibly entertaining from beginning to end.
The film documents the events that led up to the murder by the Phenix City crime syndicate of Albert Patterson, an Alabama attorney who made a bid for the state attorney general's office as a way to clean up the vice and corruption plaguing his hometown.
The story of crime and corruption in a Southern town is told using a cast culled from Hollywood's Poverty Row, and this makes the movie all the more realistic.
It's a crime drama where a man gets out of jail and plans another job.
A shame since this may be Jack Starrett's strongest film and features a witty script by a young Terrence Malick and fully realized performances by its two leads Stacey Keach and Frederic Forrest who turn to a life of crime so they can get the money to open a seafood restaurant.
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