We can’t mention all the great trucking noir films like “Sorcerer,” “Hell Drivers,” or “Thieves’ Highway” without also mentioning “They Drive By Night,” the 1940 Bogart film based on “The Long Haul,” a 1938 novel by A.I. Bezzerides. Bezzerides also wrote the 1949 novel “Thieves’ Market” and adapted it for the screen that same year […]
Of all the places in the world where you’d expect to find American muscle cars, Australia’s not that high on the list thanks to their own muscle car movement that roughly paralleled ours. But Australia never had NASCAR, nor did they have the Mopar wing cars, so Bandit Films (the group behind “The Squire,” which […]
Ah, British humor (erm, ahem, humour)… A brief look at the North Circular (including the Ace Cafe!) from “Not Only But Also,” Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s sketch show. Thanks for the tip, diskojoe!