A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator’s boss, not knowing he’s involved in it, suspects murder and sets out to solve it.Read More »
Robert Webber
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Jack Smight – Double Indemnity (1973)
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Sam Peckinpah – Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
1971-1980CrimeDramaSam PeckinpahUSAQuote:
A family scandal causes a wealthy and powerful Mexican rancher to make the pronouncement–‘Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia!’ Two of the bounty-hunters thus dispatched encounter a local piano-player in their hunt for information. The piano-player does a little investigating on his own and finds out that his girlfriend knows of Garcia’s death and last resting place. Thinking that he can make some easy money and gain financial security for he and his (now) fiancée, they set off on this goal. Of course, this quest only brings him untold misery, in the form of trademark Peckinpah violence.Read More » -
Freddie Francis – Hysteria (1965)
1961-1970Freddie FrancisHammer FilmsMysteryThrillerUnited KingdomSynopsis by Jason Ankeny
While visiting England, an American tourist (Robert Webber) is involved in an auto accident and suffers from amnesia. Upon his release from the hospital, he recuperates in a home paid for by a mysterious benefactor, where a dead body later appears in the shower.Read More »