Director Henry Koster’s 1944 MGM musical Music for Millions stars Margaret O’Brien, June Allyson, José Iturbi and Jimmy Durante. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 1946 O’Brien won a special child actor Oscar in […]
The 1950 MGM musical film The Toast of New Orleans stars Kathryn Grayson and Mario Lanza, who sings the Oscar-nominated ‘Be My Love’ MGM re-pair the Kathryn Grayson-Mario Lanza team to bigger and better effect […]
Director Norman Taurog’s 1949 MGM Technicolor musical That Midnight Kiss is the credited screen début of Mario Lanza as the singing and romancing lead, Johnny Donnetti, being pushed into the big time by Abigail Budell […]
Directors Bernard Knowles and Muriel Box’s 1949 British drama film The Lost People stars with a vintage cast of Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling, Richard Attenborough, Siobhan McKenna, Maxwell Reed and William Hartnell. But Bridget Boland’s […]
Director Jerzy Skolimowski’s 1985 American drama film The Lightship is a very odd, quite theatrical piece, about a trio of criminals led by Caspary (played by Robert Duvall in offbeat casting as a caricatured, though […]
Writer-producer-director James Toback’s 1981 thriller Love & Money stars Ray Sharkey, Ornella Muti, Klaus Kinski and Armand Assante. That great eccentric Klaus Kinski stars as a pop-eyed tycoon, Frederic Stockheinz, who draws LA bank employee […]
Director Peter Collinson’s 1973 National General Pictures release film The Man Called Noon [Un hombre llamado Noon] [Lo Chiamavano Mezzogiorno] is a fairly daft, over-familiar Euro-pudding revenge Western adventure, though it has its moments and […]