Cecil B DeMille’s 1923 American silent religious epic film The Ten Commandments is told in two parts: the biblical story of the Exodus and a modern story of two brothers (Richard Dix, Rod La Rocque). Director Cecil B DeMille’s sprawling 1923 silent […]
Director Jamie Thraves’s 2009 psychological crime thriller film The Cry of the Owl is a really rather satisfactory English language remake of Claude Chabrol’s 1987 French film Le Crie du Hibou, adapting Patricia Highsmith’s 1962 […]
Edward L Cahn’s strong and solid 1960 B-movie crime thriller film The Walking Target is one of the last film noirs. It stars Joan Evans, Ronald Foster, and Merry Anders. Ronald Foster pays Nick Harbin, […]
Douglass Montgomery stars with Hazel Court and Patricia Burke in the 1949 British black and white melodrama thriller film Forbidden [Scarlet Heaven]. American film actor Douglass Montgomery stars with English actresses Hazel Court and Patricia […]
The 1977 British satirical comedy film Nasty Habits is based on Muriel Spark’s novel The Abbess of Crewe, and is an amusing satire of the Watergate scandal. Glenda Jackson is especially fine as the Abby’s […]
Director Claude Chabrol’s suspenseful 1987 French-Italian psychological crime thriller film Le cri du hibou [The Cry of the Owl] is adapted from the 1962 novel The Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith, and stars Christophe […]
Directors Roy Boulting and John Boulting’s 1954 British war drama film Seagulls Over Sorrento [Crest of the Wave] stars Gene Kelly, John Justin, Bernard Lee, Sidney James, Jeff Richards, Patric Doonan, and Patrick Barr. The Boulting Brothers […]