Cape Fear
When he’s released after serving 14 years in prison for rape and battery, Max Cady (Robert De Niro) looks up his former attorney, Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte), hoping to exact…
Cape Fear: Cady Comes to Town
Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum. Photo: Universal When I was 15, one of the coolest movies to open in theaters was Martin Scorsese’s Cape Fear, a thriller that seemed to…
Murder on the Orient Express
In 1935, famous detective Hercule Poirot (Albert Finney) boards the Orient Express, but ends up stranded in Yugoslavia with a fresh murder case and a train full of suspects. Agatha…
12 Angry Men: Choosing Life or Death
Photo: United Artists The most famous episode of the CBS anthology series Studio One (1947-1958) is from 1954 and features a teleplay by Reginald Rose. Depicting a process where one…
On the Waterfront: The End of Mob Rule
Marlon Brando. Photo: Columbia In 1949, investigative journalist Malcolm Johnson won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles he had written for the New York Sun. Titled "Crime on…
Psycho: Sins of the Mother
Janet Leigh. Photo: Universal In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock decided to shake things up after making several films that were in color, generously budgeted and featured A-list stars. His new picture…