The third in the Walking Tall series, director Jack Starrett’s 1977 action thriller Walking Tall: Final Chapter [Final Chapter: Walking Tall], is more of the same violent adventures of Southern vigilante sheriff Buford Pusser, only […]
Grimacing Swedish–American actor Bo Svenson takes over Joe Don Baker’s role as real-life vigilante Southern sheriff Buford Pusser in the 1975 action thriller Walking Tall Part 2, a violent, cheap-looking sequel, whose story follows on […]
Director Tom Kinnimont’s 2001 film The Enemy is a tense, fast-moving, old-style action thriller, based on a novel by Desmond Bagley and starring Luke Perry, Roger Moore, Olivia D’Abo, Horst Buchholz and Tom Conti. In […]
Producer-director Stanley Kramer’s 1969 film The Secret of Santa Vittoria was nominated for two Oscars, is based on the best-selling novel by American novelist Robert Crichton, and stars Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Virna Lisi and Hardy […]
Director Serge Bourguignon’s 1962 French film in Franscope Sundays and Cybèle [Les Dimanches de Ville d’Avray] is based on the novel by Bernard Eschassériaux, and stars Hardy Kruger, Patricia Gozzi and Nicole Courcel. It is the […]
Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1954 MGM musical Rose-Marie is the third movie version of the great 1924 Oscar Hammerstein II-Otto A Harbach operetta, this time filmed in CinemaScope and Eastmancolor. It stars Ann Blyth, Howard Keel and Fernando Lamas. French-Canadian backwoods […]
Director W S Van Dyke’s pleasurable 1936 MGM black and white musical Rose-Marie stars Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Reginald Owen, Allan Jones, James Stewart, and Alan Mowbray. Opera singer Marie de Flor (MacDonald) searches for […]