Director Claude Chabrol’s fascinating 1971 French murder-mystery film Ten Days’ Wonder [La Décade prodigieuse] stars Orson Welles, Marlène Jobert, Anthony Perkins, and Michel Piccoli. Intriguing as it always is, Chabrol defined it as a ‘failed film’ […]
Director Dick Clement’s 1971 comedy spy film Catch Me a Spy [To Catch a Spy] stars Kirk Douglas, Trevor Howard, Tom Courtenay, Marlène Jobert, Patrick Mower, Bernadette Lafont, and Bernard Blier. The story is based on […]
Busy French star Claude Brasseur (son of the distinguished stage actor Pierre Brasseur and actress Odette Joyeux) stars with Marlène Jobert (Catch Me a Spy, 1971) in writer-director Robin Davis’s carefully detailed, fitfully very involving 1979 […]
MGM’s carefully made, well acted 1944 black and white drama film Mrs Parkington stars Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon as husband and wife for the fourth time. Director Tay Garnett’s 1944 MGM black and white […]
Robert Z Leonard directs the satisfyingly complicated 1935 MGM crime thriller After Office Hours. Clark Gable and Constance Bennett carry a sharply penned piece from the writer of Citizen Kane. King of Hollywood Clark Gable […]
Inventive writer-director-with-a-difference Alan Rudolph follows his Welcome to LA and Remember My Name with the deliciously quirky and perceptive 1984 adult comedy-drama film Choose Me about the relationships between repressed radio chat show sex therapist Nancy […]
A Colorado town’s cattle are being bumped off after operations done on them, and burnt-out former New York cop (Robert Urich) Reuben Castle and sheriff Harriet Perdue (JoBeth Williams) dig the dirt, in director Alan […]