Briefly (18 October 2026)

Movies Armored Car Robbery (1950) D: Richard Fleischer. S: Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman, Gene Evans, Steve Brodie. Talman and his gang knock over an ARMORED CAR (killing a cop in the process), with copper McGraw in pursuit. Functional, pragmatic, and not-too-long procedural survives only having a single likable character (cuckolded trigger man Fowley); everyone, cop or robber, is at least semi-loathsome. Talman and McGraw both give boring, flat performances. An early copaganda curio. The Devil’s Party (1938) D: Ray McCarey. S: Victor McLaglen, William Gargan, Paul Kelly, Samuel S. Hinds, Dickie Jones. Quick morality tale about grown-up Hell’s Kitchen toughs’ annual reunion having the wrong mix of cops and robbers. McLaglen’s as legit as an illegal casino operator can get, Gargan and Gallaudet are cops, Kelly’s a priest, and Roberts’s the torch singer they moon over. McLaglen’s so good nothing else really matters. Sturdy Kelly and nefarious Joe Downing help. Doctors…