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Cash on Demand (1962)

For Cash on Demand (1962), Hammer Films took on Charles Dickens for a modern “Christmas Carol” – one delivered as a nail-biting heist thriller. Peter Cushing stars as our Scrooge stand-in, Fordyce: a cold-hearted bank manager who casually bullies and … Continue reading

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Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)

The difference is that it’s real.  Every high speed spin-out, every flip, every crash.  They really drive those cars over raised bridges, through billboards, backwards into rivers, off steep precipices, through fences and into trees and buildings.  It would be … Continue reading

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