Seven Thieves (1960)

opinion: "The Asphalt Jungle (1950)", "Rififi (1955)", "Bob Le Flambeur (1956)", "Seven Thieves (Mar 1960)" and "Ocean´s 11 (Aug 1960)"... Heist is the main theme that they have in common. The reason why "Seven Thieves" still an unknown movie for the big "crime audience", probably because "Ocean´s 11" was released 6 months later! Frank Sinatra was …

Remember (2015)

opinion: Nothing seems to be the way it looks! Your mind moves in one direction and you continue there for a long period! Suddenly and when you less expect you need to change your mind direction to the opposite way! Yet there is a hint half of the way pointing out that something is out of context, but you …

Jason Bourne (2016)

opinion: Richard Chamberlain was the first Bourne in a TV adaptation "The Bourne Identity (1988)" before Matt Damon became the new and famous "The Bourne Identity (2002)". Later it continued with "The Bourne Supremacy (2004)" and "The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)" the amazing final chapter for the saga. Everybody was happy and satisfied  🙂 Matt Damon stated in 2007 that he …

Blood Simple (1984)

opinion: The starting is a narrating voice over as in the best Noir tradition. No more than 4 principal players, but enough to file Brothers Coen first movie on the same level as Hitchcock. It deserves it. Who are these four anti-heroes: Marty (Hedaya) the rich cuckolded and ruthless bar owner and main personage of the plot. Ray …

The Laughing Policeman (1973)

opinion: I have watched and follow Martin Beck cases through 41 Swedish movies during the years: 34 TV Movies-Peter Haber, 6 Gösta Ekman movies and 1 independent movie. They all have in common the original way Martin Beck interacts with his team, solving his cases with few words and a lot of detailed investigation and mental work. Even the lack …

Born To Be Bad (1950)

opinion:  The title, the director and the genre all indicates a film-noir, but it´s not according my opinion. You have greed, double-cross, lies, love triangles, redemption,  a perfect photography, but the plot elements are for a good melodrama entertainment... with two different ends 😦  the American and the European! Baby-face and gold-digger Christabel (Fontaine) is an orphan country …

Broken Arrow (1950)

opinion: Cochise was an optimist and a dreamer. Geronimo was a pessimist and a realist; 11 years after "Stagecoach (1939)" Delmer Daves with "Broken Arrow" for the first time in an Western movie, shows in a favourable plot, indians as human souls. It's based on real story, with some additional fiction parts to the complete the plot. After 39's …

Stagecoach (1939)

opinion: I can't remember when I watched "Stagecoach" for the first time, but it was around mid 60:s. Westerns were more simple to understand by that time... Open wide landscapes. Heroes were heroes. Villains were villains. Indians were indians. Cavalry always arrived 10 minutes before the end. Heroes were good guys. Villains and indians were bad guys. Heroes always won the fight, before going way …

Algiers (1938)

opinion: Boyer is good, but he is not Gabin, The Great French. Algiers fells like a well done replica of the original "Pepe, le Moko (1937)". They have follow the script, the camera angles, the lines and almost everything else has been copied. But to be original and different, they started the movie with a kind of …

Farewell, My Lovely (1975)

opinion: "... I need a vacation! I'm tired! Everything I touch turns to shit! I've got a hat, a coat and a gun, that's it ...". Marlowe is getting old and complains about his life in the LA of the 40s. At the age of 57 Mitchum, according my humble opinion, does one of the best Philip …