CRISS CROSS, director Robert Siodmak’s influential film noir masterpiece, is out now for the first time on Blu-ray in the UK from a new 4K restoration as part of The Masters of Cinema Series from Eureka Entertainment, and we have three copies to give away to our readers! Illicit passion, greed, robbery, and murder collide […]
Movie Review – Cry of the City (1948)
Cry of the City, 1948 Directed by Robert Siodmak. Starring Richard Conte, Victor Mature, Berry Kroeger, Shelley Winters and Debra Paget. SYNOPSIS: Adapted from the novel The Chair for Martin Rome by Henry Edward Helseth, the film tells the story of a charismatic criminal and his nemesis, Lieutenant Candella… Remember Barzini? The old-crone who was taken out on the […]
Blu-ray Review – The Killers (1946)
The Killers, 1946. Directed by Robert Siodmak. Starring Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmund O’Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene and Jack Lamberto SYNOPSIS: A pair of hit-men carry out the murder of an unresisting victim. A partnership of insurance investigator and police detective try to establish the facts surrounding the crime. Taking a classic Ernest Hemingway […]