Among die hard cinephiles, J. Lee Thompson’s, Cape Fear, is perhaps one of the greatest and one of the most important thrillers ever made. It’s based on the 1957 psychological thriller-suspense novel, The Executioners, written by American author John D. MacDonald. The story revolves around attorney Sam Bowden (played by […]
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Howard Hawks fans will be happy to know that two of his 60s classics starring “The Duke”, the Western EL DORADO and the African safari adventure HATARI! are coming to Blu Ray on March 11, 2014 from Warner Home Video. In EL DORADO (1966) John Wayne stars as Cole […]
Today is the late great Robert Mitchum’s birthday (Born August 6, 1917) so we wanted to pay tribute with a special post about one of our favorite films from his career, the 1958 southern fried crime drama THUNDER ROAD. Mitchum plays Luke Doolin, a Korean War vet who returns to […]
I’ve been a fan of Howard Hawks for many years now. I think what made Hawks’ work appealing to me was the fact he could take any genre and entertain you through his mastery of it. Whether it was comedy, adventure, western or a crime picture, he was one of […]
One of the subgenres of the Western is known as the Zapata Western and these stories took place specifically during the Mexican Revolution. Some of the most well known titles would include Italian entries like Sergio Leone‘s Duck You Sucker (aka Fistful of Dynamite), Damiano Damiani‘s A Bullet For the […]
Following his role in J. Lee Thompson’s 1962 psychological thriller Cape Fear actor Gregory Peck was in Robert Mulligan’s classic drama TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1963, USA). In that film, Peck played a small town southern lawyer who represents a black man in a controversial court case. He was brilliant […]
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 […]
“This life’s HARD man, but it’s HARDER if you’re stupid!” – Jackie Brown As you know by now, here at Furious Cinema, we love the crime genre and all the subgenres within it. From tales of ruthless revenge to powerful police procedurals to highly charged heist pictures. One of our […]
Charles Laughton’s only outing as a director The Night of the Hunter (1955) has been recently released on DVD by the good folks at The Criterion Collection. I first saw it on Turner Classic Movies several years ago. Ever since my initial viewing, it’s been one of my most favorite […]