Director James Whale’s American 1938 South Seas adventure film Sinners in Paradise stars Madge Evans, John Boles, Bruce Cabot, Marion Martin and Gene Lockhart. A passenger aircraft crashes in mid-Pacific and some survivors of the […]
Clive Donner makes his breakthrough as director with The Caretaker (1963), a low-budget black-and-white British drama film, extraordinarily made by a partnership of six people, Clive Donner, Donald Pleasence, Alan Bates, Robert Shaw, Harold Pinter and […]
A body in the Thames; an ancient artefact missing. Clive Donner’s neatly done 1961 British crime thriller film The Sinister Man is based on a novel by Edgar Wallace. Director Clive Donner’s neatly done 1961 […]
Writer-director Costa-Gavras’s 1965 French mystery thriller film The Sleeping Car Murders [Compartiment Tueurs] [The Sleeping Car Murder] is based on a novel by Sébastien Japrisot, and stars Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Pierre Mondy, Cathérine Allegret, […]
Director Anatole Litvak’s 1933 British black and white romantic comedy film Sleeping Car stars Madeleine Carroll and Ivor Novello. Enjoyable, nicely played hit 1930s British romantic comedy in which Ivor Novello plays Gaston Bray, a […]
‘It’s Been So Long… So Long Since I Heard You Say “I Love You.”‘ Director Ronald Neame’s 1957 British drama Windom’s Way stars Peter Finch and Mary Ure as a committed doctor and his estranged […]
James Ivory’s 1975 film The Wild Party is an interesting attempt to re-create the Fatty Arbuckle movie-scandal case. James Coco holds the attention as the 1920s comic Jolly Grimm, who holds a party that gets […]