Director Michael Apted’s 1977 gangster film The Squeeze is a tough and gritty Seventies British action thriller aping an American genre, in which disgraced, alcoholic detective Jim Naboth (Stacy Keach), fired from the police force […]
Ealing Studios 1953 British boxing drama The Square Ring is a mix of comedy and tragedy, and stars Jack Warner, Robert Beatty, Joan Collins and Kay Kendall. Director Basil Dearden and producer Michael Relph’s 1953 […]
The venerable vintage 1937 British mystery crime thriller film The Squeaker is based on Edgar Wallace’s famous novel and play. Director William K Howard’s venerable vintage 1937 British mystery crime thriller film The Squeaker [Murder on […]
Writer-director Coline Serreau’s 1989 light French film comedy Romuald et Juliette [Mama, There’s a Man in Your Bed] stars Daniel Auteuil and Firmine Richard, and concerns an interracial romance. Romuald (Auteuil) is a victim at […]
Director Peter Ustinov’s pleasant and satisfactory 1961 American Technicolor romantic comedy film Romanoff and Juliet is the screen version of his satirical play about American and Russian ambassadors (John Phillips and Akim Tamiroff) courting the mythical European […]
The 1989 crime and dance drama film Rooftops is an updated version of West Side Story, directed by Robert Wise who won an Oscar as Best Director for the original, and starring Eighties teen heart throb Jason Gedrick as […]
Director Samuel Fuller’s 1969 Mexican-American action film Shark! [Caine] [Man-Eater] [Un Arma de Dos Filos] stars Burt Reynolds as gunrunner Caine, who is stranded in a small port in the India Ocean’s Red Sea and […]