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Top 20 British heist movies no 9: Brad Pitt buys into writer-director Guy Ritchie’s street-cred allure for the 2000 film Snatch, his eagerly-awaited follow-up to the 1998 Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels. https://wp.me/p3jRpy-18t 😂

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'LAST OF AN UNTAMED BREED!' Writer/ producers Blake Edwards and John C Champion, director Lesley Selander and star Rod Cameron quickly re-team for the capable 1949 Western film Stampede. https://wp.me/p3jRpy-zAh 😀

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'Wild! Wicked! Wide Open!' 'Last roaring stronghold of the West's fiercest outlaws!' The stalwart 1948 Western film Panhandle stars Rod Cameron, Cathy Downs, Reed Hadley and Anne Gwynne, with Blake Edwards. https://wp.me/p3jRpy-zAb 😁

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The action-packed 1953 Western film Ambush at Tomahawk Gap stars John Hodiak, John Derek, David Brian, and Ray Teal as four ex-cons who search for a cache of stolen loot buried in Indian territory. https://wp.me/p3jRpy-zA4 😀

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Boris Karloff stars as Dr Fu Manchu. He recalled: 'Some scenes were written in beautiful Oxford English, others were written in God knows what!' Playing his daughter Fah Lo See, Myrna Loy complained: 'I can't do this... this girl's a sad*stic nymphomaniac.' 😂 https://wp.me/p3jRpy-mz2

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Top 20 British heist movies no 8: The tremendous 1967 British crime movie Robbery stars Stanley Baker as a tough guy who leads a gang of crooks in a great train robbery on the Glasgow to London overnight mail train. https://wp.me/p3jRpy-hxC 😁

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Sylvester Stallone is back as Barney Ross in the 2014 action film sequel The Expendables 3, also starring Jason Statham, Jet Li, Mel Gibson, Kelsey Grammer, Dolph Lundgren, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Harrison Ford, Wesley Snipes, and Antonio Banderas. https://wp.me/p3jRpy-5y9 😁

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Top 20 British heist movies no 7: The involving and likeable 2017 crime thriller The Hatton Garden Job details what happened when four old blokes robbed an underground safe deposit facility in London’s Hatton Garden area over Easter 2015. https://wp.me/p3jRpy-i0l 😁

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😂 The successful 1946 comedy mystery film The Runaround stars Rod Cameron, Broderick Crawford, Ella Raines and Frank McHugh, and is an unofficial reboot of the 1934 classic It Happened One Night.https://wp.me/p3jRpy-zzh

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Shane Atkinson's beady-eyed, satisfyingly unsettling, relentlessly peculiar 2024 neo-noir black comedy crime thriller LaRoy, Texas is lots of super-cynical, bad-tempered, disreputable fun. https://wp.me/p3jRpy-zzj 😀

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