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FIFTIES CRIME FILMS: June 2012
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Dean Brierly celebrates the 1950s crime movies that time forgot. Sunday, June 3, 2012. Columbia Pictures, 1950). Edmond O'Brien's smug protagonist assumes he's in control. Expose of the $8,000,000,000 gambling syndicate and its hoodlum empire! The syndicate boys have other ideas. As much morality tale as crime procedural, 711 Ocean Drive. All of this personal rot plays out within the wider context of a pervasively corrupt America. 8226; Newman's visual acumen is also apparent during a poolside meeting be...
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Dean Brierly celebrates the 1950s crime movies that time forgot. Wednesday, June 23, 2010. The Bonnie Parker Story. American International Pictures, 1958). Bonnie with her preferred phallic symbol. 8226; Cigar Smoking Hellcat of the Roaring Thirties. 8226; She Lived Like A Woman, And Killed Like An Animal! The Bonnie Parker Story. Appeared amidst a spate of late-50s gangster biographies. The cycle began with Don Siegel’s Baby Face Nelson. The action begins in 1932 in Oklahoma City, where Bonnie (Dorothy ...
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Dean Brierly celebrates the 1950s crime movies that time forgot. Monday, August 9, 2010. R aymond Burr doesn't like the dress Audrey Totter is wearing. Totter plays an FBI clerk who’s pressured to steal a file detailing the criminal past of a governor planning to run for the U.S. Senate. Not only does Audrey’s platinum perm get messed up, she also meets an untimely end at the hands of Burr’s henchman in this tight little programmer from Lippert Pictures. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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FIFTIES CRIME FILMS: June 2010
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Dean Brierly celebrates the 1950s crime movies that time forgot. Wednesday, June 23, 2010. The Bonnie Parker Story. American International Pictures, 1958). Bonnie with her preferred phallic symbol. 8226; Cigar Smoking Hellcat of the Roaring Thirties. 8226; She Lived Like A Woman, And Killed Like An Animal! The Bonnie Parker Story. Appeared amidst a spate of late-50s gangster biographies. The cycle began with Don Siegel’s Baby Face Nelson. The action begins in 1932 in Oklahoma City, where Bonnie (Dorothy ...
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FIFTIES CRIME FILMS: August 2010
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Dean Brierly celebrates the 1950s crime movies that time forgot. Wednesday, August 11, 2010. Girls on the Loose. Jewell Enterprises, Inc., 1958). A man-eater with a ravenous appetite. Girl Gangs That Stop at Nothing! But the girls turn out to be imperfect criminals, falling prey to the same internal divisions, ungovernable greed and combustible rivalries as their male counterparts. Girls will be boys. Joyce, however, doesn’t buy the idea that Agnes killed herself. “How did you do it, Vera? Also made in 1...
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Dean Brierly celebrates the 1950s crime movies that time forgot. Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Warner Bros., 1950). George Legenza: mean as a snake and twice as deadly. The whole blazing story of the Tri-state gang! 8221; he asks calmly, and just as calmly pulls out his piece and guns her down. Legenza's girlfriend no longer has to worry about the cops. 1952), The Steel Trap. 1952), A Blueprint for Murder. 1953), The Night Holds Terror. 1956) and Cry Terror. A new twist on making a withdrawal. In marked contra...
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FIFTIES CRIME FILMS: April 2010
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Dean Brierly celebrates the 1950s crime movies that time forgot. Saturday, April 24, 2010. Big House, U.S.A. United Artists, 1955). Ralph Meeker about to be pistol-whipped into next week by William Talman under the. Approving eye of Broderick Crawford. 5 Killer Convicts Break Out! Howard W. Koch (not to be confused with Howard Koch, who co-wrote Casablanca. Was a prolific producer/director who made a number of harder-than-hard-boiled films during the 1950s, notably Shield for Murder. Fast getaway boat...
