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When your “New York” crime thriller is filmed in Saskatchewan on a giant LED wall… and still looks faker than Dogville. Hostile Takeover (2025): killing authenticity one pixel at a time.
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To Have and to Hold (1963), A British Edgar Wallace B-movie scripted by Jimmy Sangster. A cop gets involved with a woman who thinks he ex wants to kill her. Stretches credibility just a tad at times but overall enjoyable and nicely twisted.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/10/to-have-and-to-hold-1963.html
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Whistle Stop is a 1946 film noir starring George Raft and Ava Gardner. It doesn't go where you think it's going. Ava had gone to Chicago to find glamour, excitement, money. Now she's come back to the loser she loves. Excellent underrated movie.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/10/whistle-stop-1946.html

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Hold Back Tomorrow (1955), a film noir about a man about to be hanged. He makes a last request - a woman for the night. He gets down-on-her-luck whore Dora (Cleo Moore). Cleo Moore is superb. Great movie. Somehow it got past the Hays Code.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/09/hold-back-tomorrow-1955.html

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Outside the Wall (1950) is a solid film noir. Richard Basehart is a man who's spent 15 years in prison and finds life on the outside scary. He has trouble with dames and a chance encounter from the past drags him into noir nightmare world.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/09/outside-wall-1950.html

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William Castle's Undertow (1949). Tony has a flirtation in Reno with a pretty schoolteacher but he's on his way to Mary his sweetheart whose uncle is a gangster, Tony's a nice guy with a shady past and now he's framed for murder. Enjoyable.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/09/undertow-1949.html

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Chicago Deadline is a good 1949 hardboiled crime thriller with just the faintest hint of film noir, with Alan Ladd in top form as a reporter investigating a murder. There's an ambiguous femme fatale figure and a touch of cynicism.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/09/chicago-deadline-1949.html

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Lady on a Train (1945) is based on a Leslie Charteris story. Deanna Durbin witnesses a murder from a train window. A lighthearted comic murder mystery with a decided screwball comedy flavour. It’s rather delightful and Durbin is adorable.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/08/lady-on-train-1945.html

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Three On a Ticket (1947), the fourth of PRC's Mike Shayne PI B-movies. A guy walks into Shayne's office and drops dead. He was a PI as well, but an unsavoury one. Then a blonde wants to hire Shayne to kill her husband. A good solid B-picture.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/08/three-on-ticket-1947.html

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Act of Murder (1964), a British Edgar Wallace B-movie, involves a romantic triangle and from the start the plot twists come thick and fast. A psychological thriller with lots of paranoia and a pleasingly hard-edged nasty streak. Great stuff.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/07/act-of-murder-1964.html

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We Shall See, a 1964 British Edgar Wallace thriller with some nasty emotional betrayals and twisted relationships. At the centre is a woman who thinks everyone hates her. Turns out to be more interesting and quirky than you expect. Good film.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/06/we-shall-see-1964.html

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Marlowe (1969), a surprisingly good adaptation of Raymond Chandler's The Little Sister scripted by Stirling Silliphant, with James Garner making an effective Philip Marlowe. Marlowe encounters hippies and lots of late 60s California decadence.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/05/marlowe-1969.html

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Borsalino (1970), a gorgeous-looking hugely entertaining French gangster film set in the 30s with Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo oozing charisma and sexiness and coolness. Don’t overthink this movie. Just wallow in the style.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/05/borsalino-1970.html

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Warning Shot is a forgotten 1966 crime thriller. A well-crafted superbly shot movie, old-fashioned in a good way, with a fine performance by David Janssen as a cop facing a manslaughter rap. Joan Collins is very good as his wife. Worth seeing.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/12/warning-shot-1966.html

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Vice Raid (1959) is a crime potboiler which tries to be as lurid as possible given the constraints of the 50s. The reason to see it is Mamie van Doren playing a bad girl with the body of a goddess and the morals of an alley cat. She's fabulous.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2020/03/vice-raid-1959.html

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The Spider and the Fly is a 1949 British crime thriller directed by Robert Hamer. Cop Maubert obsessively hunts master criminal Philippe and hopes to use Philippe's mistress to trap him. Quite good but with an out-of-left-field ending.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-spider-and-fly-1949.html

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Murder by Death might be one of the 70s movies I've watched that's aged the worst, and could be described as "if Clue decided to just make offensive jokes half the time".

There is an idea of a good murder mystery spoof movie there, and I found Peter Falk's Sam Diamond to be a stand-out performance, but it's just way too many bad taste jokes and too little actual witty.

From Peter Sellers yellow-face character just there for the movie to do "Oriental" quips (and an accent that might be more offensive than the dress-up) to the "blind" butler and "deaf and mute" cook who are there for comedic effect, we end with some "fun" queer and drag "jokes". "Yaay" (massive sarcasm)

I get that stuff has changed over the years, but none of the jokes add to the movie's progression or story, they just drag it down, and it even calls itself out for being racist at one point.

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Terence Fisher's Kill Me Tomorrow (1957), an OK cheap crime B-movie about a hardbitten reporter who's wrecked his career with booze and self-pity. Now he has to convince the cops that he's a murderer. Lois Maxwell plays a feisty girl reporter.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/09/kill-me-tomorrow-1957.html

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So Sweet...So Perverse (1969), an Umberto Lenzi giallo starring Carroll Baker. With delightfully twisted nasty plot twists coming thick and fast. You can't take anybody in this movie at face value. Decadence, betrayal and murder. Great stuff.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2023/08/so-sweetso-perverse-1969.html

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Midnight Lace is a 1960 Ross Hunter-produced US crime film set in London which gave Doris Day her last, and best, serious dramatic role. It's almost a proto-giallo, but with echoes of GASLIGHT. A top-notch mystery/suspense/psychological thriller.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/08/midnight-lace-1960.html

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The Man with the Glass Eye (1969) is a late entry in Rialto's German Edgar Wallace krimi cycle. Maybe not the equal of the classic early krimis (and with a bit more blood) but rather enjoyable with some nice slightly surreal touches.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-man-with-glass-eye-1969.html

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Umberto Lenzi's Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972) is sometimes seen as a very late krimi but it's more of a giallo. It was based on Cornell Woolrich’s novel Rendezvous in Black. It's fairly clued and it ticks the right giallo boxes.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2023/07/seven-blood-stained-orchids-1972.html

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Murderers Club of Brooklyn (1967), 5th of the German crime movies (set in the US) featuring G-Man Jerry Cotton. This time he's faced with a kidnapping. Some nasty twists in this one. Stylish, energetic and fun with a nice 60s vibe.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/07/murderers-club-of-brooklyn-1967.html

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Accidental Death (1963), a solid entry in the British Edgar Wallace crime thriller cycle. The plot has some far-fetched elements but it’s enjoyable and has a few oddball touches that do give it an Edgar Wallace flavour.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/07/accidental-death-1963.html

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Don Siegel's Charley Varrick (1973) stars Walter Matthau as a crop-duster pilot and part-time bank robber. Charley has inadvertently stolen Mob money and he's in big trouble. A rollercoaster of an action movie and it’s pretty dark. Good movie.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/06/charley-varrick-1973.html

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The Asphalt Jungle (1950), John Huston’s faithful and excellent adaptation of W.R. Burnett’s great novel. An excellent film noir about a heist. Fine performance by Sterling Hayden. Marilyn Monroe has a bit part.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-asphalt-jungle-1950.html

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Film noir doesn't get any better than Edgar G. Ulmer’s bleak masterpiece of cinematic deception Detour (1945). Everything is against this poor schmuck. That's his story and he's sticking to it. Watch out for dames with claws.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/05/detour-1945.html

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The Verdict (1964) is a British Edgar Wallace B-movie. It concerns a gangster and a dubious visa which is a clue to a murder 20 years earlier. Well-made, well-acted, fast-moving, witty and clever with an intricate plot that works perfectly.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-verdict-1964.html

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The Great Flamarion is an early (1945) Anthony Mann film noir. Erich von Stroheim, Dan Duryea and Mary Beth Hughes do a trick-shooting theatrical show but sexual jealousy and guns can be a nasty combination. Fine performances, good movie.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-great-flamarion-1945.html

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