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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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By movieMoll on March 7, 2009
Successful businessman Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) is crazy about his beautiful wife Irene (Helen Walker) — and she’s crazy about someone else. Irene and the other man plot to get her husband out of the way so they can enjoy his money without being inconvenienced. The murder doesn’t exactly go as planned. “Impact” is a [...]
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By movieMoll on February 25, 2009
This suspenseful ride starts with a frame and ends with a dame. In “Kansas City Confidential,” John Payne is set up to take the fall for a clever bank heist. After the cops let him go, he trails the true culprits to Mexico. The bad guys, including wild-eyed Jack Elam, are bad and even the [...]
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By GroovyMovieGuy on February 25, 2009
Although “Kansas City Confidential” doesn’t feature the dark cinematography one thinks of in film noir, it captures the gritty feel in its storyline. A convict with little more than medals from his service in World War II is framed for a bank heist he didn’t commit. He quickly hits the trail of the real robbers, [...]
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