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Introduction Crossfire is a 1947 film noir drama film which deals with the theme of anti-Semitism, as did that year’s Academy Award for Best Picture winner, Gentleman’s Agreement. The film was directed by Edward Dmytry and the screenplay was written by John Paxton, based on the 1945 novel The Brick Foxhole by screenwriter and director… Read More
Introduction The Substitute: Failure Is Not An Option (also known as The Substitute 4) is a 2001 action thriller film directed by Robert Radler and starring Treat Williams as Karl Thomasson, a former mercenary who must infiltrate a military school’s faculty to stop the actions of a white supremacist cult. The film is the fourth… Read More
Introduction The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All is a 1999 action thriller film directed by Robert Radler and starring Treat Williams as a mercenary who goes undercover as a teacher in order to expose a college football team’s steroid-abuse scandal. It is the second sequel to The Substitute (1996). Outline Students at a local college… Read More
Introduction The Substitute 2: School’s Out is a 1998 straight-to-DVD action-crime-thriller film directed by Steven Pearl and starring Treat Williams as Carl Thomasson (later spelled Karl in the sequels), a mercenary who masquerades as a teacher in order to enter a tough urban school and wreak his revenge upon his brother’s killer. The film has… Read More
Introduction The Substitute is a 1996 American crime action thriller film directed by Robert Mandel and starring Tom Berenger, Ernie Hudson, Marc Anthony, William Forsythe, Raymond Cruz and Luis Guzmán. Outline Jonathan Shale is a mercenary and a Vietnam veteran who returns home to Miami after a botched covert operation in Cuba in which three… Read More
Introduction The Emperor of Paris is a 2018 French crime film directed by Jean-François Richet and written by Éric Besnard and Richet. Outline The film is about an ex-con turned police officer. Under the reign of Napoleon, Francois Vidocq cuts a notorious figure in the Parisian underworld-he is the only man to have escaped the… Read More
Introduction The Expendables is a 1988 action film directed by Cirio H. Santiago. Outline CIA Colonel Harper’s men are robbing military armories in order to supply South American rebels. They hide near Granite Lake, a small town policed by sheriff Jack Steiger. When colonel’s men let loose on the town, Jack must stop them. Production… Read More
Introduction Ready for War is a 2019 documentary about the thousands of immigrants volunteer to serve in the United States military. Outline Andrew Renzi sheds light on the lives of three of the estimated thousands of immigrants who volunteer for service in the American military, yet find themselves deported from the US once their tours… Read More
Introduction The Gun Runners is a 1958 American film noir crime film directed by Don Siegel. Outline Sam Martin (Audie Murphy) runs a charter boat with his alcoholic first mate Harvey (Everett Sloane). He is forced by financial necessity to run guns for the Cuban Revolution but his employer seeks to maximise his profit. Production… Read More
Introduction Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold. It was a British-Romanian war film by Colin Teague that went Direct-to-video release. Outline The film is set against the backdrop of World War II, during Operation Market Garden, the largest full scale airborne invasion in history. Corporal Powell (Newbon), an… Read More
