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Recently I discovered a film called City of Industry (1997) directed by John Irvin whose credits include The Dogs of War (1981), Raw Deal (1986) and Hamburger Hill (1987). At first I wasn’t sure what the movie was about, from the title I thought it might be a story about factory workers or something to that effect. When I found out it was in fact a crime film (or to [read...] 
Professor James Anders (Edward G. Robinson), a school teacher in Rio de Janeiro has retired after 30 years. Upon leaving he flies to New York City to visit his old childhood friend Mark (Adolfo Celi) a man with suspected ties to the underworld. The reunion isn’t for sentimental purposes, Anders is there because he needs some help finding a group of specialists who can pull off a heist during the [read...] 
I can’t really say that I’ve ever left a crime thriller with my stomach in a knot. I didn’t know it was possible for the crime thriller genre, which seems to be stuck on repeat and incapable of surprises, was fully capable of coming up with something that would truly shake me to my core. Well, along comes director Andrew Dominik’s black-as-night Killing Them Softly, a darkly comedic and politically [read...] 
Greetings Gangsters and Gun Molls! Welcome to the SCENES OF THE CRIME BLOG-A-THON Rendezvous! This is the home page of our celebratory online festival of crime cinema. The event will be running from DECEMBER 1, 2012 until APRIL 30, 2013 which should give participants lots of time to work with. We’ve already started a listing of categories that represent the many subgenres within the crime film family and as links [read...] 
A mysterious masked man (Preston Foster) planning a robbery is putting together a special trio of underworld thugs to help him pull it off. First on his list is Pete Harris (Jack Elam) a murderer on the lam who he promises $300,000 dollars. Tony Romano (Lee Van Cleef) is his next pick, a getaway driver who should be in prison for life but is on the run. The third and [read...] 
Two hitmen, Charlie (Lee Marvin) and Lee (Clu Gulager) are hired to track down and kill Johnny North (John Cassavetes) by an unknown client. When they find North he is teaching auto repair at a school for the blind. Right away it is apparent these two assassins mean business as they rough up anyone who gets in their way, even a blind female secretary. The men proceed to the room [read...] 
The 1970s had a torrent of awesome cinema as we covered in one of our first features on FC, 50 Furious Films: The 1970s. Crime movies in particular seemed to be especially popular during that time. There was a kind of resurgence in the genre which started in the late 60s with films like Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Bullitt (1968) and were followed by hard boiled police procedurals [read...] 
Frank (James Caan) is a master safe cracker who also owns an automobile dealership as a front to prove hes a legit businessman. His years of taking scores and past imprisonment have turned him into someone who doesn’t have time to waste on the bullshit thrown his way. We can see this in how he moves back and forth with swift, precise actions from his criminal life to his straight [read...] 
Michael Cimino made his big screen directing debut with this 1974 buddy-crime-road film starring a young Jeff Bridges and Clint Eastwood. Cimino had previously co-written another Eastwood film, Magnum Force (the sequel to Dirty Harry) with John Milius the year before he began working on this project. A loner named Lightfoot (Jeff Bridges) with nothing to lose except some time, steals a sportscar from a local Montana car dealership. Meanwhile [read...] 
In Nicholas Winding-Refn‘s upcoming action film which won him Best Director prize at Cannes 2011, Ryan Gosling plays a Hollywood stuntman who has a second job on the side: he’s a getaway driver for a criminal outfit. After a heist goes bad, he soon finds himself marked for death by his underworld associates. In the tradition of film’s like The Driver and Heat, this is sure to be one fast [read...] |
    
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