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The Tomb Of Ligeia (1964)
Once more into the breach, dear friends, with a first time viewing of a title from the Vincent Price Collection Blu-ray Boxset. The Tomb Of Ligeia (1964) is another Edgar Allan Poe adaptation directed by Roger Corman. Key difference is that it was a UK co-production and shot in England, which means better out door… Read.
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Day Of The Cobra (1980)
Wading further into the genre of poliziottesco/Eurocrime, Day of the Cobra (1980; Il giorno del Cobra) stars Italian superstar Franco Nero (the original Django himself) as the “Cobra”, a name which is never explained but has a catchy theme song (with the bluesy lyric, “Don’t give a damn – I am the Cobra!”). The movie… Read.
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Night Moves (1975)
Night Moves (1975) is an underrated example of the neo-noir genre of the era. Alongside Chinatown and The Long Goodbye, these films paid tribute to 1940s noir while investing everything with a post-Watergate feeling of disappointment; in Night Moves, for example, there’s a scene where characters talk about where they were when JFK was killed.… Read.
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The Outfit (1973)
While I’ve not read any of the Richard Stark (alias for Donald E. Westlake) novels about Parker, the anti-hero criminal thief with his own code, the character has served several film adaptations, the most acclaimed being Lee Marvin in Point Blank (less so, the recent and boring Statham/J-Lo caper movie, Parker). Another treatment of the… Read.
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Mr. Majestyk (1974)
I re-read the Elmore Leonard novel Mr. Majestyk (1974) for the umpteenth time recently – classic crime pot-boiler with trademark Leonard characters and dialogue. I knew there was a Charles Bronson movie of it, but hadn’t realised that Leonard had written it as a screenplay first then adapted it as a novel. Bronson is the… Read.
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