Crisp direction, a stellar cast and snappy dialogue make “They Drive By Night” a great watch. Brothers Joe and Paul Fabrini (George Raft and Humphrey Bogart) are truck drivers trying to raise enough money to own their truck and have their own business. This alone would be a good movie as the pairing between Raft and Bogart are great, but then we meet Ann Sheridan's character Cassie who catches Joe's eye. The banter the two have is fun to listen…
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Cry of the Hunted 1953
Barry Sullivan's Lt Tunner travels from the city LA to the State LA to track down escaped criminal Jory played by Vittorio Gassman. “Cry of the Hunted” is a passable man hunt movie with some nice flourishes by director Joseph H Lewis aka Wagon Wheel Joe who would place a wagon wheel in the foreground of his Westerns to help create depth in his compositions. It's kind of a fun game to watch a movie of his to see if…
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Grand Slam 1967
"Grand Slam" is mean heist movie. A movie where a team of experts join together to pull a caper usually has a sense of comraderie but this film it felt pretty cold to the point of hatred and I loved it. Klaus Kinski was awesome in this in a more subdued role for him. This is in the vein of "Rififi," "The Killing," and "The Asphalt Jungle" but the aesthetic is more like "Topkapi" and the "Ocean's Eleven" remake. In…
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Krull 1983
An aesthetically pleasing big budget fantasy that falls flat of delivering anything deeper than the surface. Peter Yates is a director I like and his filmography is surprisingly diverse with stints in action, drama, romance and horror with differing results. “Krull” was his only real stab at the fantasy genre and it being a flop at the box office made it stay that way.
“Krull” tries to check too many boxes to work. You have a sword and sorcery fantasy…
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