Producer-director William A Seiter’s 1931 black and white romantic comedy Big Business Girl stars Loretta Young as Claire ‘Mac’ McIntyre, who succeeds in business while helping the swing band singing career of her boyfriend Johnny […]
Director George Marshall’s 1941 Western film Texas stars William Holden, Glenn Ford and Claire Trevor, its action intercut with a love triangle romance. The almost unrecognisably young and handsome Holden and Ford make their mark […]
Director James Hogan’s 1938 film The Texans is a faded but impressively big-scale Western with vigorous handling and feisty turns from a reliable cast. As Texas sorts itself out after the US Civil War, what […]
Director John Cromwell’s primitive but interesting 1930 early talkie Western film The Texan stars Gary Cooper as a bandit called the Llano Kid who meets con man Thacker (Oscar Apfel), who persuades him to pretend […]
Writer-director Alexander Ramati’s 1985 The Assisi Underground is a well-meaning, costly, but largely ineptly told wartime adventure about Catholic monks in Assisi (Perugia, Umbria, Italy) hiding Italian Jewish refugees from the Nazis in 1943 and […]
Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s 1984 British television film Dr Fischer of Geneva stars James Mason, Alan Bates and Greta Scacchi. Graham Greene’s lukewarm novella proves ideal material for a TV movie, at least this TV movie, […]
Eric Roberts and Christopher Penn star as Alex Grady and Travis Brickley, who lead the five-strong American karate team chosen by Frank Couzo (James Earl Jones) to fight against Korea in a Tae Kwon Do […]