Film number 3 of the British Avantgarde BFI tape is a tricky crime short where you never get to see the faces of the actors or any conclusive idea what the story is about (if there is one). It's a quite interesting anthology of typical mystery scenes and shots exposing the genre to its barest essentia
Desmond Dickens
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Film number 3 of the British Avantgarde BFI tape is a tricky crime short where you never get to see the faces of the actors or any conclusive idea what the story is about (if there is one). It's a quite interesting anthology of typical mystery scenes and shots exposing the genre to its barest essentia
สารคดีเรื่องนี้เป็นเรื่องราวของฮวน คาตาลัน ชายผู้ถูกจับข้อหาฆาตกรรมซึ่งเขายืนกรานในความบริสุทธิ์ของตน และรวบรวมหลักฐานพิสูจน์โดยใช้ภาพฟุตเทจจากรายการทีวียอดนิยม
A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hotel fire.
Raised in Harlem, Tommy Gibbs becomes a successful mob boss but he clashes with the rival Mafia and his old enemy, dirty cop McKinney.
In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time criminals are on the run with the money. Will the mafia catch them first, or will the police?
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.
Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series of robberies.