Director Graham Cutts’s boisterous 1940 British comedy Just William is based on the beloved stories of Richmal Crompton, and stars Dicky Lupino, Fred Emery, Basil Radford, Amy Veness, Iris Hoey, Roddy McDowall, Norman Robinson, and […]
Francis Searle’s acceptable 1950 British black and white Hammer Films crime thriller film The Rossiter Case stars Clement McCallin as Peter Rossiter, who is charged with the murder of his mistress, his disabled wife’s sister […]
Writer-director Brock Williams’s 1947 Gainsborough Pictures studios drama The Root of All Evil stars Phyllis Calvert, who looks unhappy, miscast in a British Joan Crawford-style role as Jeckie Farnish, getting up to dirty business to […]
Director Brian Desmond Hurst’s 1947 British film Hungry Hill [The Stranger Between] is based on the 1943 bestseller novel by Daphne du Maurier, and stars Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price, Cecil Parker, Michael Denison, Dermot Walsh, Jean […]
Director Compton Bennett’s 1948 thriller Daybreak is based on the play Grim Fairy Tale by Monckton Hoffe, and stars Ann Todd, Eric Portman and Maxwell Reed. Daybreak is a bizarre British film noir with Portman […]
Eleanor Powell dances, Nelson Eddy sings and Frank Morgan takes care of the comedy in the lavish 1937 MGM musical Rosalie. Director W S Van Dyke’s 1937 film Rosalie is an incredibly lavish and spectacular […]
Director Paul Schneider’s 1989 comedy Babycakes is an entirely unnecessary but pleasantly cast and tasty remake for American TV of Percy Adlon’s 1985 German film Sugarbaby [Zuckerbaby], providing a big fat part for Ricki Lake […]