Boozy Las Vegas cop Ben Shockley (Eastwood), gets the job of delivering prostitute Augustina ‘Gus’ Mally (Sondra Locke) to her court appearance in Phoenix. According to Ben’s boss, chief of police Blakelock (a brief but memorably repulsive character played by William Prince), it’s ‘a nothing witness for a nothing trial.’ Unsurprisingly then, Mally turns out to have a story that … Read the rest
Month: November 2017
The Human Vapor (Ishiro Honda, Japan, 1960)
Opening with a taut robbery sequence in which employees react with terror as doors and bank vaults seemingly open at will, a second robbery gets even stranger when a dead employee is found inside the locked but ransacked vault. With both keys in the hands of the authorities it’s a mystery as to how someone could have gotten into the … Read the rest
