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Lurking and Smirking: Anthony Perkins and Charles Bronson Match Wits in ‘Someone Behind the Door’

Lurking and Smirking: Anthony Perkins and Charles Bronson Match Wits in ‘Someone Behind the Door’

If we judge a film by keeping us on the edge of our seat, 1971's Someone Behind the Door, starring Anthony Perkins and Charles Bronson, is a success.

When Charles Bronson went to France: ‘Rider on the Rain’ and Cold Sweat’

When Charles Bronson went to France: ‘Rider on the Rain’ and Cold Sweat’

Dismissed as "trash" in their day, Charles Bronson films Rider on the Rain and Cold Sweat belong to a Golden Age of internationally co-produced Euro-thrillers that combine pulp storytelling with stylistic elegance and intense emotion.

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