Director Richard Thorpe’s 1950 American film noir Black Hand stars Gene Kelly, J Carrol Naish and Teresa Celli. A young New York Italian guy, Johnny Columbo (Kelly), working with police detective Louis Lorelli (Naish), sets out to […]
Director Joseph H Lewis’s 1948 American Technicolor swashbuckler film The Swordsman is set in 18th-century Scotland, and stars Larry Parks, Ellen Drew, George Macready and Edgar Buchanan. The handsome son – swordsman Alexander MacArden (Parks) – and […]
Director Gordon Douglas’s 1948 historical adventure film The Black Arrow [The Black Arrow Strikes] is based on the novel The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson, and stars Louis Hayward, […]
Writer-director Caroline Thompson’s 1994 film Black Beauty is a good-looking, lavish and entertaining version of the beloved Anna Sewell children’s yarn about a farmer who makes friends with a magnificent black colt. It stars Sean […]
After two silent versions in 1907 and 1921, director Phil Rosen’s 1933 black and white film Black Beauty is the first sound film of the beloved Anna Sewell children’s classic, written in 1877, about a […]
The 1971 film version of the beloved Anna Sewell children’s classic Black Beauty stars Mark Lester, Walter Slezak, Ursula Glas, Patrick Mower, and John Nettleton. Wolf Mankowitz comes up with an appealing, faithful script for […]
The 1948 Technicolor Western film Black Bart [Black Bart, Highwayman] tells the story of celebrated dancer Lola Montez (Yvonne De Carlo) falling for real-life bandit Charles E Boles, aka Black Bart (Dan Duryea), during her […]