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At first, it seemed like a gripping crime drama, but quickly started showing its true colours.
Early in the story we are treated to a colorful but talky exposition which sets the plot in motion: On the day the Civil War starts, Jim Fisk (Edward Arnold), itinerant peddler, and his partners in crime (Cary Grant and Jack Oakie) devise a scheme to buy cotton cheaply in the South, smuggle it North and sell it at a high price to New England mills, thus launching the career of one of the fabled financial speculators of the 19th century.
The cast and locations were pretty convincing, as was sense of tawdry, sleazy amorality which is the reality of crime.
But the real crime here was the woeful miscasting of Cate Blanchet, and this I think, is why the movie never really took off at the box office.To any Dubliner, or indeed Irish person, her accent is just wrong, and given that she is surrounded by native Irish actors of some account, her pain is palpable.
Jonathan decided to go to her apartment to bring a new dress for Charlotte, but her maid saw him in the crime scene and called the police that are chasing him as prime suspect.
I just felt comfortable with the entire production as it included all the dimensions of crime films that are needed to make it successful.
The crime naturally gets pinned on Skip and Harry, who get put in jail.
Right off the bat you know this is a no nonsense crime film.
Two fat cops Mike and John (James Barnes and Micheal Alden) are put on the case, but unfortunately when it comes to solving the crime and capturing the killer these guys are about as useful as a chocolate fireguard.
He tries his best in both Schwarzenegger's Raw Deal and now Patrick Swayze's Next of Kin to create a violent, good action film but make it passionate and dramatic and all about crime family vs crime family.
I've seen lots of true crime movies, dramatic, suspenseful, and enthralling.
"city by the sea" purports to use long beach, long island as this powerful metaphor/backdrop for its story of crime, loss, and spiritual devastation.
They plan a "perfect crime" on which the film turns.
The same sense of working from first-hand knowledge is omnipresent in this drama about Alain Delon's paroled convict trying to start a new life with the help of prison educator Jean Gabin and almost making a go of it until Michel Bouquet's local flic goes all Inspector Javert on him and does everything in his power to engineer his return to crime.
Between bouts of drugs, partner-swapping, S&M and crime, Daniel ruminates on the nature of fascism.
What the movie is trying to suggest is that murder isn't the best solution to crime.
It sensationalizes crime, celebrates materialism, denigrates Black Africans in general, debases Black women in particular, and glorifies Whites in the same subliminal ways that are so prevalent in Hollywood.
She sees her son sliding hopelessly downhill into a life of crime, when he comes home with a radio he's stolen.
- you'd see a parody of the Edgar Wallace series, very low budget - well: cheap - German crime movies from the early 60ies that still get some admiration for their tackiness and camp value.
Despite being based on a novel ('Blood On The Moon') by prolific and acclaimed crime writer James Ellroy (probably best known for writing the novel L.A. Confidential, which was later turned into the Oscar winning film of the same name) Cop is a crime thriller that just lacks, well thrills and crime in large doses.
"Cannibal Man" by Eloy de la Iglesia is a notorious Spanish shocker about slaughterhouse worker named Marcos.He works in a canning plant attached to the local slaughterhouse.One night,he kills a taxi driver in self defense and then strangles his girlfriend,the only witness to the crime.Desperate with fear,he murders several other people."Cannibal
The book had some scenes that would have made wonderful cinema such as the interogation of a murder suspect who gleefully confesses to the committing the crime but claims to have used a rifle instead of a knife, the surprise reception for Chee at his first session as a healer, the discovery of the true identity of the shotgun artist, Leaphorn's rescue of Chee that unintentionally delivers him into the hands of the real murderer, and the ironic circumstances that rescue Chee for the second time.
Then of course he is a double or triple victim One, of the low life people he had chased and hunted down in his crusade against crime and they think they can finally get their revenge and they can trash his car or even attack him in the street or attack his family or the people he has relations with.
Fifth-rate 1920s crime spree with Fabian Forte cast as real-life Prohibition-era crook John Ashley who, along with his girlfriend Laura and assorted pals, preceded even Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker in the bank robbing field.
This crime thriller centers on a detective named Megan (Eliza Dushku) who investigates a series of child murders in upstate New York.
Tony Leung plays a corrupt cop who is trying to make a peace between two of three powerful crime lords on Macau.
Things are going from bad to worse as word hits the street of a contract on one of the crime bosses.
But the writer of this mess was no weaver, inexplicably adding his own new characters and events and gutting the drama of the crime and its subsequent legal and social effects.
Instead of crusading to understand why young punks kill, this prosecutor was concerned with unraveling an organized crime racket whose income came through contract killings--talk about a change!
Framed for a crime they didn't commit the two new yorkers find themselves facing a long time behind bars.
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