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Though its authenticity is widely trailed, the film's basic premise - that a police officer whose daughter has been raped and killed would subsequently be allowed to investigate the same crime as a miscarriage of justice - defies disbelief.
In the night, Paul and her mate are murdered, and Lila becomes the prime suspect of the crime.
Quincy ME brought us the fascinating world of Forensic Pathology and yes, even crime scene investigation 30 years before we would be flooded with analogous programs.
Turkus was an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn who became known to the mob as Mr. Arsenic because of his incorruptibility and ability to convict organized crime figures.
But "Crime Wave" deserves to be seen by fans of the Noir or crime film genres.
This is a pretty routine crime drama involving narcotics in New York.
Had a chance to watch KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE and although I don't agree with the claims of some that if you must see one "crime" film, this is it, I will say that I thoroughly enjoyed it and that James Cagney was again terrific and on top of his game for this one.
Excellent B-movie crime caper story with an A-movie complex twist pulled by the caper's Mr. Big, Preston Foster as Mr. "Foster"(how creative!).
Like the film THE CRIME OF PADRE AMARO (please see companion review) the movie "The Healer" is a study of the degrees to which human beings can enjoy the gift of human sexuality while simultaneously attempting to serve as channels for spiritual healing, social harmony, and political integrity.
The narrative proceeds to give a standard history of this type is formed, beginning with him getting into petty crime as a kid, and then following him as he proceeds up the ranks of the underworld.
Also along the way you see can see the building blocks for basically every subsequent gangster film: the misogyny (most famously illustrated when Cagney, sitting at the breakfast table with his moll, suddenly reaches over and smacks her in the face with a grapefruit; the disapproving family members; the protagonist's more moral sidekick ( a type seen as recently as in the Brazilian crime epic City of God).
These ingredients don't jell quite as well as they would in subsequent crime films.
The Public Enemy certainly did more in the long run to make gangsters look glamorous than to attack them, but it does boast memorable final "warning" against crime.
All (yes ALL) of the criminals in this movie, no matter their crime, are ridiculously strung out on drugs.
They're extremely inept low-level Irish-American gangsters in Hell's Kitchen, and the reach of their benefit from crime is that raised leases are coercing them out of their neighborhood.
Both films feature comparable nonstop action (in crime and in love), two young super stars (big names in their respective cultures), basically the same plot (change the location to Argentina & Uruguay in the 1910s here), and roughly similar shock values, relative to its time of release.
I'm a regular viewer of TV crime shows but had never seen this.
Denzel investigates the crime and finds some clues that don't make sense.
This made for TV psychological crime thriller exceeded my expectations.
I think what makes ncis rise above the rest of the crime shows, is the in-depth personalities that each main character has.
For a crime show to be funny, but still uphold it's great plots is something the directors should be applauded for.
With his penchant for incorporating "Western" ideas into his films, Kurosawa hits yet another home run with his take on the crime film.
It appeared that the "white man" was accused of causing the characters life of crime.
Lloyd Hopkins is an L.A. police detective that loves to take chances in his pursuit of an assassin who he believes is responsible for a crime wave in which women are murdered in a horrible manner.
Bacchan hates crime and Puri hates criminal.
We can see further in the movie crime and violence at its extreme.
Essentially, this pint-sized automaton spends its time waging a perpetual war on crime, evil, and injustice.
It was a horrible crime, one that was quickly and easily solved.
Only this time the character is placed in a manipulative plot that seems like retreads from better crime films.
Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Nancy Gates; these are the stars that make this movie an intense crime drama; the planning of an asassination of the president of the USA from an unsuspecting private home overlooking a small town.
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