The Burglars (1971) Jean-Paul Belmondo, Omar Sharif

Today's movie. 

A 1970s euro caper movie with the late greats Belmondo and Omar Sharif, famous for its car chase and a Belmondo jump down some earthworks. 

Set in Greece, with lots of sunshine, out of season, not that much action.

Today's Noir: Violent Saturday (1955) - Crime/Drama/Film-Noir - Lee Marvin, Victor Mat...

Today's noir movie.  A "Splash of Color at the End of Noir Film Era".

 

Except it's not true noir as, first, it is in color which makes it, I think, a neo-noir film and one of the earliest at that and, second, while everything goes bad for the gang as noir canon prescribes it's not true to the noir canon in other respects, in particular, in that there is too much going on with respect to some other characters in the movie and for some it ends with a happy ending, so the focus was not on the ill-fated caper, and also there is no femme fatale either.

But still a good viewing.

Movie time - Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997) / SUBTITLES - ENGLISH, GERMAN, BULGARIA...

This movie is 25 years old this year, and I just watched first time this week. 

Nice but nothing really new. 

This has been done, if not before, certainly since. 

But probably before too. 

Maybe worth a viewing though.

Contract on Cherry Street (1977) starring Frank Sinatra

I just finished watching this movie while doing a spot of working (hardly) on my computer.

Not a bad 70s cop movie, worth seeing for the feel, character 70s menswear and some solid acting led by Mr. Frank Sinatra himself in his first made-for-TV appearance and first acting role in 7 years.

I distinctly remember seeing it once already but not in the 1970s - I think, it was shown here on TV in Moscow in the 1990s.