By GroovyMovieGuy on June 3, 2009
Let’s face it, folks, the experimental’60s pushed the boundaries to make some terrible movies. Not this time, though. This is the real thing. A compelling story, solid acting and a car chase that set the bar for all that would follow.
Steve McQueen at his prime plays a San Francisco cop trying to track down the [...]
Posted in Action Adventure, Crime, Drama, Index | Tagged action, car chase scene, Crime, Drama, Steve McQueen |
By GroovyMovieGuy on March 27, 2009
Dark, gritty, noir. That’s all the good things I can say about this movie.
For some reason “Detour” has developed a cult following. Beats me why.
Everyone makes mistakes — and sometimes they are big ones — but most of us stop at some point. Our leading man makes mistakes, big mistakes, and keeps piling more on. [...]
Posted in Crime, Drama, Film Noir, Index, Mystery | Tagged Crime, cult classic, Film Noir, Mystery |
By movieMoll on March 27, 2009
Never pick up hitchhikers. Al Roberts (Tom Neal) learns this lesson the hard way. Waving his thumb, Al hits the road from New York to California to reunite with his girlfriend. He thinks he’s in the home stretch when he gets picked up by a guy named Charles Haskell (Edmund MacDonald) who says he’s going [...]
Posted in Crime, Drama, Film Noir, Index, Mystery | Tagged Crime, cult classic, Drama, Film Noir, Mystery |
By movieMoll on June 30, 2009
This is a B-movie in every sense — brief, low-budget and bad, obviously made to show in theaters as part of a double feature. Secretary Susan Hart (Pamela Blake) takes on a job from a client while her cash-strapped private eye boss and boyfriend Russ Ashton (Tom Neal) is out of town on a case. [...]
Posted in Crime, Drama, Index, Mystery | Tagged Drama, gangster, Mystery, suspense, Thriller |
By movieMoll on March 25, 2009
The title sounded like this was going to be a vampire or werewolf movie. It’s actually a police procedural done in pseudo-documentary style, with a behind-the-scenes look at the infancy of CSI. Basehart, who walks by day as well as by night, does good job as cold, calculating criminal with no qualms about killing cops. [...]
Posted in Crime, Drama, Film Noir, Index, Mystery | Tagged Crime, Drama, Film Noir, Jack Webb, Mystery, police procedural |
By movieMoll on June 25, 2009
This movie doesn’t include a murder — or a mystery, for that matter. A publicity man for a movie studio (Frank Albertson) hatches a scheme to convince the press that the star of the latest gangster film (José Crespo) is a real gangster. Complications arise when real gangsters come after him. The good news is [...]
Posted in Crime, Drama, Index, Mystery | Tagged Drama, gangster, Mystery, suspense, Thriller |
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