What would you do if you were driving along the highway and someone tossed a bag of cash–$60,000 to be exact—into your car? Would you throw it back out the window? Would you notify the police? Or would you keep the money and hope for the best? Lizabeth Scott plays […]
1949
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The Quiet Duel is one of the earliest ventures handled by Akira Kurosawa. Takashi Shimura won the Mainichi Film Concours in the Best Actor category for his performance in the flick. During World War II, young doctor Kyoji Fujisaki (Toshirô Mifune) cuts himself while operating on a patient Susumu Nakada […]
“Made it, Ma! Top of the World!” In my previous post for our ongoing CRIMEWATCH series I looked at the film that catapulted Edward G. Robinson into the limelight Little Caesar (1931). While I love that movie and its star, the man who gets top billing in this film review […]
Two years after making the film noir classic Out of The Past (1947) together, Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer co-starred in this South of The Border crime adventure. Mitchum plays U.S. Army Lieutenant Duke Halliday, who is robbed of a $300,000 payroll he is carrying by a fast talking shyster […]