Director William K Howard’s 1943 drama Johnny Come Lately [Johnny Vagabond] stars James Cagney as down-on-his-luck newsman Tom Richards, who is in court on trial for being a vagrant in the small American town of […]
“These kids are nuts.” Frankie (Frankie Avalon) takes up skydiving, prompting Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) also to try free-falling, in the 1965 fifth beach party film Beach Blanket Bingo. Director William Asher’s 1965 American International […]
Johnny Concho (1956) is Frank Sinatra’s first Western, playing against type as the villainous anti-hero. Director Don McGuire’s pseudo-psychological 1956 black and white Western film Johnny Concho stars Frank Sinatra as the mean and boastful […]
Angela Lansbury stars as an unfaithful murderess, defended in court by loving lawyer Raymond Burr. Director Peter Godfrey’s 1956 film noir thriller Please Murder Me! stars Angela Lansbury and Raymond Burr. Angela Lansbury was in a […]
Director Tito Davison’s 1969 psychological thriller drama The Big Cube stars Lana Turner, in real life freshly married for the seventh time, who went to Mexico for this tedious, laughable piece about a newly-wed, ageing […]
Lou Castel stars as Requiescant and Mark Damon plays the flamboyant Ferguson in the strange, cultish and entertaining 1967 spaghetti Western film Requiescant, also starring Pier Paolo Pasolini. Producer-director Carlo Lizzani’s Italian/ German co-production 1967 […]
‘A HANGING TREE AT ONE END OF TOWN… and a wanton girl in jeopardy at the other.’ Director George Sherman’s strong and sterling 1956 Columbia Pictures Technicolor Western film Reprisal! is based on the novel […]