The Nickel Ride - An aging low level mafia fixer and fence finds himself in too deep with his old Mafia friends and a young upstart looking to make a name for himself. Decent, but not great film, very well acted. Very heavy on the noir, 6-7/10 -
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Decent copy of the full film -
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Another great aging criminal film that sometimes gets lots in the shuffle. I'll let the trailer do the selling -
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52 Pick Up. People should know this one, as it was a huge film on HBO and played a lot in a heavily edited form on network tv in the 80's. Three sleazy small time crooks try to blackmail a business man, and get more then they ask for. Based on the Elmore Leonard book, the performances of the two main bad guys (John Glover and Clarence Williams) really add to the film -
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Miami Blues. Based on the 1st novel in the Hoke Moseley series by Charles Willeford, it's a neat little crime film about a traveling grifter and murderer that winds up in Miami, and falls for a hooker. During the film he oscillates between wanting to go straight, grift the hooker, and trying to dodge burnt out detective Moseley.
It's Willeford's characters that set this one off. The man was a master of writing quirky, mean hillbilly noir. It's a shame he died right when his stuff was starting to attract Hollywood attention -
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Weak late 80's, early 90's trailer. The film is much better than it.
