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 …

Double Indemnity (1944)

opinion:  According some crime expertises there are two types of violent homicide: -Expressive violence (unplanned): acts that vent rage, anger, or frustration; And -Instrumental violence (planned): acts designed to improve the financial or social position of the criminal or to achieve a goal or a girl... Normally greed, money, stupidity and love triangles are involved …

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 …

711 Ocean Drive (1950)

opinion: This semi-documentary gangster movie narrated in voice over, plots the rise and fall of a bookmaker boss, from being an honest and poor phone company repairman to a powerful and rich dead body on the sidewalk. Greed, corruption, double-cross and desire was the reason for his disgrace; For the first time on a movie, crime syndicate was …

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 …

Stray Dog / Nora Inu (1949)

opinion: Toshiro Mifune the great Japanese star has always been connected to Kurosawa. "Stray Dog" it´s their third movie together, from a totally of 16 produced between 1948 and 1965. Kurosawa movies have been the inspiration for several remakes produced in the west (and westerns) movie world. This one has been the inspiration for movies like "Pickup on South Street (1953)"! …