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Train Wrecks: My Favorite Stinkers (part two)

[callout] The Cool Ones (1967). Directed by Gene Nelson. Written by Nelson, Joyce Geller, Robert Kaufman. [/callout] [one_half] Nothing ages more quickly and more embarrassingly than a movie or TV show which had worked so hard to be cool in its time. You disagree? Feathered hair, big lapels. Oh, God – mullets! You gonna honestly …

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Director de Toth balances the gritty with the stylistic in ‘Crime Wave’

Crime Wave Directed and Andre de Toth Screenplay by Crane Wilbur U.S.A., 1954 Sometimes the merits of a film noir come down to how superbly directed and acted it is, simple as that. Truth be told, there are only so many variations of the same story which can be told within the genre for it …

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