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The 1947 film noir crime thriller Intrigue stars George Raft as former smuggler turned hero Brad Dunham, who confronts hordes of heavies in post-war Shanghai and tracks down the head of a gang of black […]
Director Pat Jackson’s 1957 drama The Birthday Present stars Tony Britton as British toy salesman Simon Scott who finds his life, career and marriage heading disastrously downwards after he is convicted for six months of […]
Director Ken Annakin’s 1969 comedy Monte Carlo or Bust! [Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies] stars Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Tony Curtis, Bourvil, Walter Chiari, Terry-Thomas, Gert Fröbe, Susan Hampshire, Jack Hawkins, Eric Sykes, […]
Directors Maurizio Lucidi and Guglielmo [William] Garroni’s basic 1976 Italian gangster film The Sicilian Cross [Gli Esecutori] [Street People] [The Executors] stars Roger Moore as Ulysses [Ulisse], an Italian-American lawyer searching for a stolen heroin […]
Director David Macdonald’s 1950 thriller Cairo Road stars Laurence Harvey, aged 21, at the start of his film career, although already in his fifth film. He supports his friend Eric Portman in an exotically located […]
Director Robert Parrish’s 1957 Fire Down Below is based on the novel by Max Catto and stars Robert Mitchum and Jack Lemmon as Felix and Tony, tramp boat owning adventurers falling in love with and […]
When World War Two is over, the crew of a gunboat buy their old boat and run smuggled goods across the English Channel into Britain, in director Basil Dearden’s 1955 Ealing Studios black and white […]