Chambara movies and westerns have been two genres that have complimented each so beautifully that classics from the former have easily lent themselves as material to the latter. There are movies like Yojimbo, Seven Samurai, and even Rashomon that were remade as A Fistful of Dollars, The Magnificent Seven (not […]
Terence Young
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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 […]