Best Crime Films of 1973

Charley Varrick

Don Siegel directed this ... his trail, forcing Varrick to outwit both the cops and the robbers if he is to stay alive. [ best crime films - 1973 ]

Dillinger

John Milius's first directorial ... FBI agent whose obsession with capturing Dillinger led to Dillinger's death in the back alley of Chicago's Biograph Theater. [ best crime films - 1973 ]

The Mack

A box-office success during ... crooked cops and fellow pimps ready to settle a few scores. Richard Pryor makes a small appearance as Slim. [ best crime films - 1973 ]

Honor Thy Father

Gay Talese's bestseller Honor ... certain no reviewer would spoil the audience's enjoyment by prematurely cataloging the differences between the film and the book. [ best crime films - 1973 ]

Willie Dynamite

Willie Dynamite (Roscoe Orman) ... was produced by Richard Zanuck and David Brown, who shortly afterward collaborated on a more upbeat project, The Sting. [ best crime films - 1973 ]

I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse

Love, death, sainthood and ... gets work as a circus performer until he frees the show's animals and Aden is wounded by pursuing police. [ best crime films - 1973 ]

The Yakuza Papers 2: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

Bunta Sugawara returns as ... in Hiroshima) was followed only a few months later by the third film in Kinji Fukasaku's Yakuza Papers series. [ best crime films - 1973 ]

Black Caesar

Cult director Larry Cohen ... and Williamson got together 23 years later for an interesting (if unsuccessful) attempt at reviving the genre, Original Gangstas. [ best crime films - 1973 ]

Crimson

In this Spanish horror/crime ... rival gangster known as "The Sadist" and the doctor transplants his brain into the head of the wounded robber. [ best crime films - 1973 ]

Book of Numbers

Raymond St. Jacques both ... of the black characters, if only by default. The film was based on a novel by Robert Dean Phaar. [ best crime films - 1973 ]

The Yakuza Papers

Kinji Fukasaku directed this ... Papers: Battles Without Honor and Humanity) was the first in a series of five successful crime films from Fukasaku. [ best crime films - 1973 ]

Milano Rovente

A violent crime thriller ... by his own men. Franco Fantasia co-stars in this well-paced melodrama featuring a mournful jazz soundtrack by Carlo Rustichelli. [ best crime films - 1973 ]

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Grudge Song

This fourth film in ... directed a pair of sequels starting with Shin Joshu Sasori: 701-go (1976), each starring different actresses in the lead. [ best crime films - 1973 ]

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable

Following her successful prison ... the series for director Shunya Ito, but Kaji returned one more time in Joshu Sasori 701-go Urami Bushi (1973). [ best crime films - 1973 ]

Yasagure Anego-den: Soukatsu Lynch

With a title like ... and Torture will depend upon the viewer's tolerance for kinkiness, but no one will find it easy to forget. [ best crime films - 1973 ]

Lady Snowblood

A woman seeks the ... by Kazuo Koike, who also scripted several of the most memorable films in the Lone Wolf and Cub series. [ best crime films - 1973 ]

The Yakuza Papers 3: Proxy War

Kinji Fukasaku's violent chronicle ... Proxy War) was followed in 1974 by Jingi Naki Tatakai: Chojo Sakusen (aka Yakuza Papers, Vol. 4: Police Tactics). [ best crime films - 1973 ]

Cop Killers

Two thugs move from ... was shot under the title Sweet, Mean and Deadly, and featured producer Bill Osco in his first acting role. [ best crime films - 1973 ]