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 […]
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The classic film noir genre usually dealt with many of the same types of subject matter such as gangsters, double crosses and femme fatales, but Robert Aldrich‘s film adaptation of Mickey Spillane’s novel Kiss Me Deadly (1955) really took the genre to the edge. Screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides left the worn […]
Sergio Leone‘s sprawling western epic Once Upon a Time in the West is not only a masterpiece of pure cinema storytelling but a post-modern tribute to all the westerns he loved. Infused with homages to classics such as High Noon, Johnny Guitar, Winchester 57, The Searchers and many others, Leone […]