Road House (Fox Film Noir) Reviews
Road House (Fox Film Noir)
Ida Lupino is a singer working at Richard Widmark’s club. When she falls for Cornel Wilde, Widmark goes berserk.Road House has acquired a cult as a prime film noir. Certainly the title location is archetypal, a lounge and bowling alley up toward the Canadian border, and Ida Lupino and Richard Widmark make the most of flavorful roles that would qualify them as exemplary noir denizens even if they hadn’t established that elsewhere. He’s the second-generation owner of the place who’s never been obliged to grow up. She’s a somewhat shopworn dame he’s brought back from Chicago to play the piano and sing. He–Jefty’s the name, by the way–decides to marry her, and is unhinged enough not to realize he needs to ask first. She, meanwhile, has been rubbing Jefty’s sobersides right-hand man (Cornel Wilde) the wrong way, and both of them are getting to like it. Fairly psychotic vengeance ensues. This was director Jean Negulesco’s first film for Fox, pretty much coinciding with his career peak of
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City on Fire
Internationally renowned superstar Chow Yun-Fat (CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON; THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS) delivers an electrifying performance in this hard-hitting big-screen thrill ride! An undercover cop sent to infiltrate a notorious crime ring, Ko Chow (Chow Yun-Fat) must replace a fellow officer who was killed in a violent confrontation. But, as he earns the trust of the syndicate, he develops a tight friendship with one of the thieves. Then, when a planned heist turns into a bloody shoot-out with police, suspicions arise about who the informant could be. As friendship and loyalty clash with duty and honor, you’ll be riveted by the explosive power of this intensely entertaining motion picutre!Although many Hong Kong action fans have criticized Quentin Tarantino for stealing the premise of Reservoir Dogs from Ringo Lam’s 1987 hit City on Fire, those accusations do a disservice not only to Tarantino–who vastly improved upon every scene he “borrowed”–but also to Lam and his charism
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