Based on an equally confusing novel by Raymond Chandler, the screenplay for "The Big Sleep" was handled by the likes of the legendary William Faulkner, Jules Furthman and Leigh Brackett.
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Self-proclaimed preacher and serial killer Rev. Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) tracks down a jailed bank robber's family to find $10,000 the holdup man squirreled away. His kids know where the money is and Powell aims to find it. "The Night of the Hunter" (1955)
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“Double Indemnity” might have had a very different ending than the one we’re familiar with. But director Billy Wilder chose to cut what he called one of the best scenes he’d ever filmed.
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Not only does Rope deserve technical praise beyond its extended shots, but the story raises philosophical questions and demonstrates Hitchcock's affinity for a subtlety far ahead of his time.
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By avoiding anything from before the year 2000, younger audiences are limiting themselves both in terms of education and enjoyment.
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“Double Indemnity” might have had a very different ending than the one we’re familiar with. But director Billy Wilder chose to cut what he called one of the best scenes he’d ever filmed.
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Rarely, if ever, have there been such brutally antipathetic leads in a mainstream film as Kirk Douglas’s scoop-or-die reporter and Jan Sterling’s breathtakingly callous victim’s wife.
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