Police Mugshots of 1930s Criminals

All of these men were caught by the long arm of the British law by police in the 1930s. Amazingly, this collection was recently discovered in a junk shop in the northeast of England.  Later they were donated to the Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums and have been recently released on its Flickr Photostream. The clarity of many of them is, to not put too fine a point on it, arresting.

A Pawful of Dollars

I was thinking only the other day that Quentin Tarantino had been rather quiet on the movie making front recently.  I needn’t have worried, as here is his latest production in its entirety.  OK, it isn’t by Mr Tarantino but it is reminiscent in a way, being full, as it is, of violence, criminality and bad language.

Sure, the action is conducted by a trio of stuffed toys and the bad language is uttered in their own unique language but that just makes A Pawful of Dollars even more irresistible.   Created by Martin Törnros and a team of animators I had to say I chuckled my way throughout.  There are more than a few movie references in this three minute wonder that you will recognize without being a movie buf and it is all done with an incredible and infectious sense of fun.