Director Stuart Walker’s infamous 1933 American pre-Code black and white Paramount Pictures drama film White Woman stars Charles Laughton, Carole Lombard, Kent Taylor and Charles Bickford. Lombard plays nightclub singer Judith Denning, a young widow […]
Director Kurt Neumann’s 1939 black and white crime thriller film Island of Lost Men is a stock adventure yarn in which oriental daughter cabaret singer Kim Ling (Anna May Wong) discovers that her absconded Chinese […]
Director Nick Grinde’s 1939 black and white crime thriller King of Chinatown is an intriguingly written, fast-moving and atmospheric mob story that rattles along thanks to effective performances and tough action scenes. Akim Tamiroff stars […]
Unlikely renaissance man Albert Brooks co-writes, directs and stars in the funny, offbeat 1981 comedy Modern Romance about a compulsively neurotic movie editor called Robert Cole who cannot handle his fixation on beautiful, intelligent Mary […]
Co-writer/ director Albert Brooks’s 1985 comedy Lost in America stars Brooks as successful LA yuppie David Howard, who is passed over for promotion, so he convinces his wife Linda (Julie Hagerty) that they should quit […]
Walter Forde’s 1940 British black and white comedy film Sailors Three is a silly, happy, likeable World War Two patriotic Ealing Studios musical farce, with Tommy Trinder, Claude Hulbert and Michael Wilding. Director Walter Forde’s […]
Director Harry Watt’s 1944 British black-and-white comedy with musical sections Fiddlers Three [While Nero Fiddled] is a cut-price version of the similar Eddie Cantor’s Roman Scandals with Tommy Trinder and Sonnie Hale as over-cheerful sailors […]