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Fernando Di Leo’s ‘Milieu Trilogy’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, gangsters, International Cinema, Spaghetti Cinema, SVOD 01/23/2023 Sean Axmaker

The crime films of Fernando di Leo are poliziotteschi (Italian crime thriller) at its best and these three films in particular dismantle the pulp glorification of the mafia.

Leaving soon: Victor Mature and Richard Conte hear the ‘Cry of the City’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Crime, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, SVOD 01/22/2023 Sean Axmaker

Robert Siodmak directs this crime drama of a desperate gangster and a driven cop, one of his darkest film noirs, seeped in shadows, corruption, and psychosis

Leaving soon: Richard Conte drives the ‘Thieves’ Highway’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Classic Movie, Crime, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, SVOD 01/21/2023 Sean Axmaker

Jules Dassin directs this film noir drama set in the cutthroat world of long haul trucking, independent drivers, and the San Francisco produce market run by a crime boss.

Luc Merenda stars in Fernando di Leo's crime drama from Italy

‘Shoot First, Die Later’ – Revenge of the corrupted on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Crime, Criterion Channel, DVD, gangsters, International Cinema, Spaghetti Cinema 01/14/2023 Sean Axmaker

Fernando di Leo’s seventies Italian gangster thriller stars Luc Merenda as a hotshop young cop on the take and features some of the most impressive car chases of its era.

‘The Blue Gardenia’ on Prime Video

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Classic Movie, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, SVOD, thriller 11/30/2022 Sean Axmaker

Anne Baxter is young woman who becomes the suspect in a lurid murder case in Fritz Lang’s 1953 film noir.

Richard Conte and Hope Emerson in Robert Siodmak's 'Cry of the City'

Blu-ray: ‘Cry of the City’ on Kino Lorber

Blu-ray, Blu-ray review, film noir, Kino Lorber 01/03/2017 Sean Axmaker

Cry of the City (Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu-ray) (1948) is a film noir that should be better known. It’s directed by Robert Siodmak, who made more film noirs than any other director, and it is one of his darkest, a gangster drama seeped in shadows, corruption, and psychosis, with Victor Mature (in what I […]