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Glasgow Film Festival · 2017

Glasgow Film Festival 2017

Dangerous Dames

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10 films · 4 reviews

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Body Heat

In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.

(Country: US; Year: 1981; Director: Lawrence Kasdan; Writer: Lawrence Kasdan; Stars: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson, JA Preston, Mickey Rourke)

Chinatown

Review preview for Chinatown

A dense and dark storyline that is compelling in and of itself, rather than simply ladelling on lots of game-changing twists.

Stephen Carty · 4 out of 5
A PI stumbles into a water conspiracy.

(Country: US; Year: 1974; Director: Roman Polanski; Writer: Robert Towne, Roman Polanski; Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman, Darrell Zwerling, Diane Ladd, Roy Jenson, Roman Polanski, Richard Bakalyan, Joe Mantell, Bruce Glover, Nandu Hinds, James O'Rear, James Hong)

Full review See: Faye Dunaway in Locarno on ageist attitudes, inequality and stage roots

Gun Crazy (Deadly Is The Female)

A well meaning crack shot husband is pressured by his beautiful marksman wife to go on an interstate robbery spree, where he finds out just how depraved and deadly she really is.

(Country: US; Year: 1950; Director: Joseph H Lewis; Writer: MacKinlay Kantor, Dalton Trumbo; Stars: John Dall, Peggy Cummins, Berry Kroeger)

Leave Her To Heaven

Melodrama about a ruthless woman driven to cruel acts of jealousy by her dad complex.

(Country: US; Year: 1945; Director: John M. Stahl; Writer: Jo Swerling, Ben Ames Williams; Stars: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Mary Philips, Ray Collins, Gene Lockhart, Reed Hadley, Darryl Hickman, Chill Wills, Guy Beach, Audrey Betz, Olive Blakeney, Ruth Clifford, Harry Depp)

The Last Seduction

Review preview for The Last Seduction

One of the qualities of The Last Seduction is its denial of pastiche.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
A tough, sexy New Yorker goes on the run with drugs money she stole from her husband.

(Country: US; Year: 1993; Director: John Dahl; Writer: Steve Barancik; Stars: Linda Fiorentino, Bill Pullman, Peter Berg, J T Walsh, Bill Nunn, Herb Mitchell, Dean Norris, Brien Varaday, Donna Wilson)

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The Maltese Falcon

Review preview for The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon provides us with one of the earliest, and undoubtedly one of the best, examples of Hollywood Noir.

Robert Munro · 5 out of 5
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

(Year: 1941; Director: John Huston; Writer: John Huston, Dashiell Hammett; Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane, Lee Patrick, Sydney Greenstreet)

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Niagara

A woman schemes with a stranger in a motel to kill her husband, but things don't go to plan.

(Country: US; Year: 1953; Director: Henry Hathaway; Writer: Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch; Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Max Showalter, Denis O'Dea)

Out Of The Past

A private eye is hired by a gambler to pursue a dangerously charming woman.

(Country: US; Year: 1947; Director: Jacques Tourneur; Stars: Jane Greer, Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas)

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Review preview for The Postman Always Rings Twice

The Postman Always Rings Twice is a masterclass in noir.

Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
A bored woman seduces a drifter in the hope that he'll kill her husband.

(Country: US; Year: 1946; Director: Tay Garnett; Writer: Harry Ruskin, Niven Busch, based on the book by James M Cain; Stars: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway)

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Scarlet Street

When an amateur painter lies to the young woman he's trying to rescue from an abusive boyfriend, trouble is on the cards.

(Country: UK; Year: 1945; Director: Fritz Lang; Writer: Dudley Nichols, based on the book by Georges de La Fouchardière and André Mouézy-Éon; Stars: Edward G Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay)