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Julie Harris pops up (aping Geraldine Page as a tough talking crime broker).
It's not some kind of medieval village, where bloody killers live and crime is overwhelming.
Crime Wave - Excellent 1952 crime thriller directed by Andre De Toth.This 73 minute movie moves at an excellent pace from beginning to end- with a superb cast of noir stalwarts - starring Sterling Hayden as the toothpick chewing homocide detective,Ted de Corsia,Ned Young(screenwriter of Decoy) & Charles Bronson as a trio of San Quinten escapees and the scenery chewing Timothy Carey providing the hideout for the thugs.Shot on location in Los Angeles this movie has so many great shots and the usage of light and shadow mixed with terse dialogue make this a movie worth owning.The DVD has a 5 minute featurette and a fun commentary by LA Confidential scribe James Ellroy and noir buff Eddie Muller.
Why she should hate this particular man and not the judge or prosecuting attorney or her accomplice (who pushed her into a life of crime)?
A hideous-looking, rotten-toothed Joanna Lumley (from the "Absolutely Fabulous" TV series) is his lover and partner in crime, who uses the dead bodies in her famous meat pies.
Peer pressure, petty crime and violence mark the lives of the principals and the lure of a gun and its power result in a showdown between the reluctant Omar Epps and the psychotic Tupac Shakur.
Samuel L. Jackson and Queen Latifah are great in supporting roles and the movie has a nifty hip-hop soundtrack that adds pace to a solid uptown crime drama.
I have never seen such an atrocious pathetic attempt at a crime thriller.
Considering how lame the British crime movies of the last ten years have been for the most part, its just surprising how good the country's entries in the genre used to be.
The film breaks movie stereotypes for these guys are struggling to make it in the world without crime, drugs or violence.
"The Item" is an incredibly lame, blood-spattered hybrid of Tarantino crime thrillers and Woodsian sci-fi, shot on video, which makes the proceedings seem that much more amateurish.
And MGM was never at that time at least a studio known for hardboiled,gritty crime dramas.
Secondly, hiring a man who defies the term "obese", and showing said man, shoving his bare fat ass out of a car window, is a crime against humanity and God.
This is truly a unique piece of film making and a nice character study showed through, what appears to be a special 70's crime movie style.
Crime, punishment, yellow journalism, it is all addressed in this finely acted, fast paced drama.
Referring to "Rabid Grannies" as it being a great movie would be a crime against all forms of good taste, but it's nevertheless a film that every horror-loving Belgian should be sincerely proud of!
This crime tale is weird, suspenseful and filtered with off beat humor.
Their crime: having a second child.
"Wild in the Streets" director Barry Shear's pulsating blaxploitation thriller "Across 110th Street" is a gritty, realistic crime caper about three trigger-happy African-Americans that heist $300-thousand of illicit drug money from the Mafia during a secret meeting in Harlem.
Anyone who commits this type of crime should be given harsher penalties otherwise, when they are released, they may just do it again.
Being scared when you see someone commit a crime against you is not going to stop criminals.
Everywhere has drugs and crime, but this movie suggested that everywhere you go on the island that's all there is, the partying and the drugs and the killings.
What starts as an interesting crime case and a question of Clint's character drags into an overlong boring venture as the same thing that happens at the beginning continues after 90 of the 115 minutes.
This movie is by far one of the best urban crime dramas i've seen.
After defending a woman and killing the man who was beating her, a local journalist takes it upon his own to publish the story, with his own literary add-ons, and even invents Tigre's basis for his future in crime.
Henry Fonda gets the role of a lifetime as Eddie Taylor, who gets out of jail, only to go right back for a crime that he didn't commit.
Really not a lot of horror going on in this one, however from what I see of other reviews this was just supposed to be a horror remake of a crime classic and it shows.
Here, the aforementioned ditzy blonde is cop Melanie Griffith, who we are introduced to in an early scene where a crime is committed, so she whips out her standard-issue and busts a cap in his ass.
The road movie through the desert crime caper is nothing new nor original ("Thelma and Louise," anyone) but the performance of the sexy Le Page and the twist of ruthless hit woman teamed up with single mom trying to do the right thing brings a very interesting dichotomy to what could have been an otherwise forgettable film.
Michael Kitchen absolutely shines in this fine series; it is about moral dilemmas rather than crime.
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