Director Paul L Stein’s 1930 American pre-Code romantic comedy Sin Takes a Holiday stars Constance Bennett, Kenneth MacKenna and Basil Rathbone in brightly played performances. The fairly witty screenplay by Horace Jackson is based on […]
Director Arnold Laven’s efficient and gripping 1953 documentary-style black and white film noir police procedural cop thriller Vice Squad [The Girl in Room 17] is a neat example of the genre then in vogue, and […]
John Payne stars as Rockwell Grayson, a Confederate soldier who is freed after the American Civil War and returns home, and finds he has to defeat the town crooks, led by patriarch Roger Hale (Lyle […]
Myrna Loy appears in her first starring role in director Chester M Franklin’s 1932 black and white romantic drama Vanity Fair, an early sound ‘modern version’ adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s famous 1848 classic novel. […]
Director Louis Malle’s 1994 American film Vanya on 42nd Street, written by Andre Gregory and starring Wallace Shawn and Julianne Moore, is an intimate, interpretive performance of the 1899 play Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov […]
Director Richard Alan Greenberg’s 1989 children’s comedy adventure Little Monsters is a cute and cheerful junior monster romp about a teenager called Brian Stevenson (Fred Savage from The Wonder Years), who traps the little monster […]
Director William C Thomas’s standard issue 1949 black and white thriller Special Agent stars William Eythe as Railway Special Agent Johnny Douglas, who battles train payroll sibling thieves Paul and Edmond Devereaux (George Reeves, Paul […]