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Tag Archives: Don Siegel
The Don Siegel Rule
I had to give it a name, so I called it the Don Siegel Rule. I was watching Charley Varrick recently, the 1973 heist film directed by Siegel, starring Walter Matthau as an ex-crop duster and stunt pilot turned bank who, … Continue reading
Posted in Angie Dickinson, Crime film, Don Siegel, Heist films, Lee Marvin
Tagged Charles Bronson, Charley Varrick (1973), Dirty Harry (1971), Don Siegel, Donald Pleasence, Hell is For Heroes (1964), Invasion of the Body Snatches (1956), Janet Suzman, Joe Don Baker, John Vernon, Lalo Schifrin, Lee Remick, Michael Caine, Point Blank (1967), Robert Siodmak, Telefon (1977), The Black Windmill (1974), The Killers (1946), The Killers (1964), Walter Hill
The heist always goes wrong, part 1: ten of the best heist movies ever made
I love a good heist film. I love the genius and intricacy of their plots and the variations they come in, whether it be the all star team assembled for a job or the desperate ex-cons trying for one last … Continue reading
Posted in 60s American crime films, 70s American crime films, 80s American crime films, Angie Dickinson, Charles Durning, Donald Westlake aka Richard Stark, Ernest Borgnine, Film Noir, Gene Hackman, James Caan, Jim Brown, Peter Boyle, Robert Mitchum, Stanley Baker, Sterling Hayden, Sydney Lumet, Yaphet Kotto
Tagged A Cop (1972), Across 110th Street (1972), Al Pacino, Alain Delon, Angie Dickinson, Anthony Quinn, Armoured Car Robbery (1950), Basil Dearden, Catherine Deneuve, Charles Durning, Crime Wave (1954), Criss Cross (1949), Diahann Carroll, Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Don Siegel, Donald Westlake aka Richard Stark, Ernest Borgnine, Gene Hackman, Heat (1995), heist films, Jack Klugman, James Booth, James Caan, James Whitmore, Jim Brown, Joanna Pettel, John Cazale, Joseph Loosey, Money Movers (1979), Peter Boyle, Peter Yates, Richard Jordan, Richard Stark, Robbery (1967), Robert De Niro, Robert Mitchum, Robert Prosky, Ronald Reagan, Sexy Beast (2000), Stanley Baker, Sterling Hayden, Sydney Lumet, The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The Bank job (2008), The Criminal (1960), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), The Killers (1964), The League of Gentlemen (1960), The Red Circle (1970), Tuesday Weld, Warren Oates, Yaphet Kotto
The Killers 1964 & 1946
The following is posted as part of Furious Cinema’s Scenes of the Crime Blog-a-Thon. It originally appeared in the Fall 2012 edition of Noir City. One short story, Ernest Hemingway’s The Killers, which appeared in 1927, two film versions. Robert … Continue reading
Posted in 60s American crime films, Albert Dekker, Angie Dickinson, Ava Gardner, Film Noir, Lee Marvin, Parker
Tagged Albert Dekker, Angie Dickinson, Armoured Care Robbery (1950), Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Charles McGraw, Clu Gulager, Don Siegel, Edmund O’Brien, John Boorman, John Cassevetes, Lee Marvin, M Squad, Miklos Rozsa, Norman Fell, Point Blank (1967), Pulp Fiction (1994), Quentin Tarantino, Richard Fleisher, Robert Siodmak, Ronald Reagan, Sam Levene
