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Reviews

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  Money Madness 1948

  

  Justin Decloux ★★★½

  Mean little claustrophobic noir about a young woman (Frances Rafferty) who marries scuzzy a man (Hugh Beaumont) who wandered into town. Before you know, bodies are piling up and there's…

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  Club Havana 1945

  

  Nashville Dude ★★★½

  A low-key delightful ensemble piece that was apparently shot in four days (!) on a single set (!!) by Ulmer at the height of his powers (his magnum opus Detour…

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  Club Havana 1945

  

  Justin Decloux ★★★★

  Amazing Ulmer in Minature. In a tiny club over a single night, we follow twenty different characters as their stories rub against each other and the camera (helmed by Eugen…

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  Club Havana 1945

  

  Benjamin Nason ★★★★

  One night in the Club Havana. Song and dance. In between, a pianist fingers a gangster, a woman takes two handfuls of sleeping pills, a doctor meets a woman for…

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  Club Havana 1945

  

  Reza Said ★★★★½

  Club Havana (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945) 9/10

  Ulmer's superb melodramatic pastiche was filmed in just six days as he uses his prowling camera to explore the lives of various people…

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  Club Havana 1945

  

  Will Sloan ★★★½

  To love Edgar G. Ulmer, it helps to watch a lot of the terrible movies that less talented directors were churning out for Poverty Row studios at the same time.…

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  Phantom of Chinatown 1940

  

  laird

  "What'd she have for lunch, chop suey?"
  "Coffee and apple pie."

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  The Stranger Returns 1967

  

  More_Badass ★★½

  Compared to the first Stranger film, this sequel loses much of the minimalist stripped-back approach and becomes your more traditional spaghetti western. At that point, all that’s really left is…