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 […]
Writer-director Val Guest’s 1948 British black and white comedy film William Comes to Town stars William Graham, Garry Marsh and Jane Welsh, who return as William Brown, Mr Brown and Mrs Brown, and is a […]