‘HERE COMES TROUBLE! MOTHER’S FALLEN IN LOVE AGAIN!’ Director Jules Dassin’s 1943 comedy Young Ideas stars Mary Astor and Herbert Marshall as a widowed lady novelist and a staid and stuffy, small-town college professor who […]
California (1947): ‘IT WAS A PARADISE OF GAMBLERS, GUNMEN AND GLITTERING GIRLS!’… Director John Farrow’s 1947 Paramount Pictures Western film California stars Ray Milland, Barbara Stanwyck and Barry Fitzgerald, with a screenplay by Frank Butler […]
Writer/ producer/ director John C Champion’s 1976 film Mustang Country stars Joel McCrea in his final film at the age of 70 as a one-time rancher and rodeo star who emerges from his retirement to […]
Director William Conrad’s 1965 Warner Bros black and white chiller My Blood Runs Cold is written by John Mantley, based on Meredyth Lucas’s yarn The Girl Who Was Two, and stars Troy Donahue, Joey Heatherton, […]
Director Herbert Ross’s 1990 droll comedy My Blue Heaven stars Steve Martin as bon viveur Mafia informant ‘Vinnie’ Antonelli, who is transplanted to a sleepy California town in the witness protection programme under the protection […]
The 1966 Technicolor thriller film An American Dream is based on the novel by Norman Mailer, and stars Stuart Whitman and Janet Leigh. After it bombed at the box office, Warner Bros re-titled it See […]
Director Michael Karbelnikoff’a 1991 thriller Mobsters [Mobsters: The Evil Empire] is a junior-league Godfather, a kind of Young Machine Guns, with Christian Slater as 30s gangster Lucky Luciano out to get rid of (or ‘ice’) […]