Fritz Lang’s celebrated back to back look at the prescient fantasies of New Yorkers in the nineteen forties remains a touchstone for crime cinema: portraits of peril decorated with good intentions and very bad decision making. Following the success of Lang’s The Lady in the Window (which was initially banned) […]
Edward G. Robinson
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Richard Fleischer’s 1973 dystopian sci-fi classic SOYLENT GREEN is set in the year 2022 where the climate has been ruined by the greenhouse effect, oceans are dying out and poverty has skyrocketed. The city of New York has become overpopulated (40 million citizens) and alternate rations are being supplied by […]
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 […]
At a small greasy spoon, Caesar Enrico “Rico” Bandello (Edward G. Robinson) and his best friend Joe Massara (Douglas Fairbanks Jr) eat spaghetti, drink coffee and chit chat. While reading a newspaper Rico notices a headline about a Chicago gangster named Pete Montana (Ralph Ince) and realizes that he wants […]