J Lee Thompson launches his career as director with the 1950 British crime thriller Murder Without Crime starring Dennis Price and Derek Farr. He had already launched his career as writer with the play version, […]
The Yellow Balloon (1953) was one of the first films to be passed with an X certificate by the British Board of Film Censors, which judged the chase through the London Underground station too frightening […]
Three men and a little lady. Jerry Desmonde and Pauline Stroud get rare star roles in the 1953 British comedy film Alf’s Baby [Her Three Bachelors]. Three bachelors who run a shop are left raising […]
‘THEY SLASHED A CRIME-SCAR ACROSS THE MAP OF AMERICA!’ Writer-director Andrew L Stone’s tremendous 1950 Warner Bros gangster film noir crime drama Highway 301 stars Steve Cochran, Virginia Grey, Gaby André, Edmon Ryan, Richard Egan, […]
Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1936 MGM American romantic comedy drama film His Brother’s Wife [Lady of the Tropics] is based on a story by George Auerbach, and pairs Barbara Stanwyck with Robert Taylor. […]
The 1952 Italian film Rome Eleven O’Clock [Roma, Ore 11] is perhaps Giuseppe De Santis’s finest picture, a Neorealist look at postwar unemployment in an urban setting, entirely free from the banal melodrama and sex […]
The 1961 British comedy film His and Hers is just about worth the effort for glimpses of the vintage cast: Terry-Thomas, Janette Scott, Wilfrid Hyde White, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, Joan Hickson, Oliver […]