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The Gun Runners (1958)

“Hemingway-Hot Adventure!” In terms of film adaptations of Ernest Hemingway’s 1937 novel To Have and Have Not, The Gun Runners ranks well below established classics To Have and Have Not…

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The Happy Years (1950)

“A Story of Wild and Wonderful Days.” A true forgotten classic, this wonderful little coming-of-age story was directed by William A. “Wild Bill” Wellman (The Public Enemy) and based on…

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The Harder They Fall (1956)

“Powderpuff punch and a glass jaw… that’s a great combination!” Humphrey Bogart’s last film (he passed away from esophageal cancer the following year at the age of 57) in which…

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The Haunting (1963)

“It was an evil house from the beginning – a house that was born bad.” Arguably the best of the haunted-house genre, this superb psychological horror film was directed by…

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The Sadist (1963)

“Who would believe in something like this?” A true unappreciated low-budget horror classic, The Sadist (AKA Profile of Terror and Sweet Baby Charlie) is very loosely based on the infamous…

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The Screaming Skull (1958)

“The tortured ghost who claimed vengeance in the bride’s bedroom.” If you enjoy campy, extremely low-budget horror films as much as I do, then don’t miss the opportunity to check…

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The Secret Six (1931)

“Go ahead and shoot if you got the nerve.” A gritty, Pre-Code gangster flick from MGM, The Secret Six features a solid performance by Wallace Beery as “Louis ‘Slaughterhouse’ Scorpio,”…

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The Seventh Victim (1943)

“Weird pagan rites in secret dens of exotic mystery!” A young woman named “Mary Gibson” (Kim Hunter) leaves a boarding school to search for her missing sister “Jacqueline” (Jean Brooks)…

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The Snake Pit (1948)

“It was strange, here I was among all those people, and a the same time I felt as if I were looking at them from some place far away .…

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The Gangster (1947)

“I knew everything I did was low and rotten. I knew what people thought of me. What difference did it make? What did I care?” An offbeat film noirish crime…

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