Crime Wave
This heist-gone-wrong movie starts with a heist going wrong. 1953’s Crime Wave (aka The City Is Dark) is a B movie and wastes no time hanging around. The setup is classic – within scant minutes of opening a cop is dead, one of the bad guys is in urgent need of a doctor and the heisters are on the run with the law on their tail. Meanwhile, across town another classic ingredient, the ex-con trying to go straight but being dragged back towards crime, first by the wounded man arriving at his door, then by the bent doctor who arrives to patch him up, and finally by the fugitive bad guys themselves. Studio … Read more