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As she sets out to solve the crime, the relationship between her and Thal's persona Ariel seems as out of place as the police women herself.
This is a fairly low-key for a crime story, a tale about a woman trying to find out why a young boy fell from a rooftop to his death.
Yes, there is sex, suspense, and the mafia, but don't expect it to flow like a mindless crime thriller (read: it isn't mindless, and it isn't non-stop action).
I find it hard to believe that any Muslim living in Canada would oppose the United Nations intervening in a society were music at a wedding is a crime.
By any reckoning Crime Wave is a minor film -- even a minor second feature -- but De Toth lavishes easy expertise on it; it's surprisingly well paced, well shot, as well interestingly cut.
Why so many talented directors (many of them refugees from Europe) were relegated, in the 1950s, to "genre" movies -- crime dramas, 3-D schlockfests and westerns -- is a puzzle.
I saw Across 110th St. many years ago and to this day it's one of my favorite crime flicks of the 70s, right up there with The Godfather, Serpico, and Dirty Harry.
Psychopathic Mafia hit-man, corrupt cop on the take, brutal violence, ruthless crime bosses, greedy crooks, all told without soft-core political correctness.
This knee-slapping comedy is directed by William A. Wellman and its a crime not to watch.
Although some clues are kept from the audience, much of each of the 90 minute mysteries can be deduced along with the protag offering an enjoyable "play along" aspect as Foyle slogs toward the inevitable crime busting conclusion.
This movie is a slow, typical swedish crime story on the silver screen.
In this movie, as in most recent Mexican filmography, crime (kidnapping in this case) is the only choice for the main male character to get ahead, and the main female character is, yet again, a prostitute.
Slow, but intensely fascinating and erotic story about a typical female English (if there is such a thing...) crime novelist.
1950s crime thriller 'The Big Combo' has some good points: some nice acting in the minor roles (Lee van Cleef's performance among them), an interestingly sympathetic portrayal of some of the lesser villains, and a lively, entertaining pace.
"Last Salute" is an episode directed by Falk's friend McGoohan and from start to finish the viewer can enjoy what is almost a pastiche of a crime mystery.
I think the people who were surprised by the ending would have thought OJ was innocent even if they saw a video of the whole crime.
He plays a young man, Vadassy, whose camera is used to photograph a military installation, which is the crime of espionage.
In the long run, not only did the family's father and breadwinner die in prison for a crime he didn't do, but the son felt abandoned and became a hood, eventually dying in the electric chair.
Organized crime is extremely depressing -- not something to make movies about.
The film has an odd symmetry in that it opens and closes with scenes of drug overdoses which may explain why two impressionable youngsters who should know better get swallowed up drug distribution activities and violent crime.
He plays a wine swilling, street/terror-wise, hard-nosed crime fighter.
The British have a knack for such crime drama, and I cringed throughout imagining what the Hollywood version would be like.
Mr. No Legs tells the tale of crime kingpin & drug lord D'Angelo (Lloyd Bochner) who has the hard as nails Mr. No Legs (Ron Slinker) as his bodyguard & as a gangland 'enforcer' who shoots first & doesn't bother to ask questions later.
I could not but think of such works as Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment or such films as Schindler's List, because I am fascinated by the portrayals of seemingly ordinary people put in situations of fundamental moral choice.
More than twenty years after the deed, the crime remains unsolved.
Fred Mac Murray's cop starts out as a professional but ends up in a vortex of crime thanks to the compelling allure of the shapely Miss Novak.
A group of teens (on their way to a debating competition) are taken hostage by a drug dealer who is looking for his partner in crime.
Ben Stiller used any excuse he could to make a crime comedy in which he shoots a living, breathing animal.
A wonderful movie the works for both the crime buff and the science fiction fan.
This vicious crime drama certainly scores points for sleaze, but it doesn't hold up for more discriminating viewers.
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