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The Killers X 2
“The door of Henry’s lunch-room opened and two men came in. They sat down at the counter.” So begins Ernest Hemingway’s 1927 short story “The Killers,” which begat two feature length films, an innumerable amount […]
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Emperor of the North is a Bloody White Knuckler
If you’re looking for a realistic depiction of the violent struggle between itinerant boxcar riders and the railroad men who fought to throw them off by any means during the Great Depression, you’ve come to the […]
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An Unexpected and VIOLENT SATURDAY (1955)
BY WADE SHEELER Tawdry, lurid, and angst-ridden, Richard Fleischer’s taut and titillating melodrama, Violent Saturday, plumbs the depths of post World War depravity and displays it in full, much like some of the better 1950s soap […]