Naive and clean-cut young Vic Ajax (Reed Birney) has been sentenced to death in the electric chair for crimes he didn’t commit. The story unfolds…
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One of six films Stanley Baker would do with another Hollywood blacklistee, director Joseph Losey, The Criminal combines heist, prison and gangster film tropes with an…
Two years after The Flame and the Arrow, Robert Siodmak’s The Crimson Pirate was another chance for Burt Lancaster and his acrobatic partner Nick Cravat…
Stephen Herek’s Critters (1986) may be the only comedy-horror film based on a “true” event, however loosely. It’s based (loosely) on a case referred to…
Crocodile Dundee: The little wonder from Down Under that ended up conquering the globe. A double “fish out of water” story with a heart of…
Outback hero Mick Dundee and journalist Sue Charlton have settled down and are living happily together in New York. But their peace is shattered by…
Stanley Fabian (Frank Lovejoy) owns a busy drive-in diner in Hollywood and is in love with one of the carhops, Joanie Daniel (Mari Blanchard). She…
Playing a stripper was hardly the most auspicious start to Julie Christie’s career, but she managed to cover herself in some glory in this amiable…
After pulling off a small train robbery, “Little” Walter (Ronald Fraser) and his gang hide out in a deserted monastery on a remote Cornish island.…
David Wilkerson is a relatively young parish priest in 1950s Philipsburg, Pennsylvania. His church sends him to the slums of New York to bring the…
Director Sam Peckinpah switches from his trademark westerns such as The Wild Bunch (1969) to another kind of savagery – this time it’s the Germans in retreat on…
In a wrenchingly dark performance, Jack Nicholson plays Freddy Gale, a man obsessed with killing John Booth (David Morse), the drunk driver who mowed down…
This 1988 made-for-television movie was originally titled Philly Boy and featured former It’s Your Move and The Hogan Family star Jason Bateman as gutsy 18-year-old high…
The plot of this old-style comedy/thriller was written by occasional Saint writers John Kruse and Leigh Vance, and that may explain why this decidedly humdrum attempt to…
Based on the myth that blues legend Robert Johnson sold his soul to the Devil, this is essentially a musical version of The Karate Kid (1984).…
Crossroads To Crime was the live-action feature film directorial debut of Gerry Anderson, the famous creator of Supermarionation as seen in Stingray, Supercar, Thunderbirds, Joe 90…
Predating Straw Dogs by nine years, Crosstrap sees Geoff (Gary Cockrell) and his new wife Sally (Jill Adams) rent an isolated countryside cottage to enable Geoff to…
The Crow is a dark-avenger fantasy from a comic which – despite a cartoonish script – presents a sombre, exciting and visually stunning story of Eric…
It’s the day of the staff Christmas party at the mammoth London West End department store of Bunting and Hobbs (the film was shot in…
An airliner and a Navy jet are on a collision course in this forerunner to the Airport series of 1970s ‘disaster movies’. There are several stories…