“Well, you know Chick, like old momma said, next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing.” Walter Hill’s crackerjack Depression era film HARD TIMES (1975) was his directorial debut. Before this he had been a screenwriter on several films including Hickey & Boggs and The Getaway. Charles […]
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Two decades before Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece GoodFellas (1990) about the life of a mobster turned informant, Director Terence Young covered similar territory with The Valachi Papers (1972). Adapted from a book by Peter Maas (author of Serpico), the film tells the true story of Joseph Valachi a member of the mob […]
In this 1972 crime-action-thriller classic Charles Bronson is Arthur Bishop, a connisseur of fine things. He lives in a luxurious home, collects expensive art and has a very interesting line of work: he’s a hit man. Every person Bishop is ordered to kill comes from a secret organization that he […]