The 1962 colour Western film Young Guns of Texas stars James Mitchum, Alana Ladd, Jody McCrea, Chill Wills, and Gary Conway. It is routine but of interest, if only for starring children of famous stars. […]
Delmer Daves’s modest but pleasing 1952 Western film Return of the Texan stars Dale Robertson, Walter Brennan, Richard Boone, and Joanne Dru. The screenplay is by the expert Dudley Nichols. Director Delmer Daves’s modest but […]
John Howard stars for the first time as English adventurer Captain Bulldog Drummond, but John Barrymore is top billed as his friend Colonel Nielson, in the 1937 mystery thriller film Bulldog Drummond Comes Back. John […]
Columbia Pictures’ 1940 crime thriller The Lone Wolf Strikes is the second Lone Wolf film starring roguish smoothie Warren William as retired jewel thief Michael Lanyard. Eric Blore takes over amusingly as bumbling butler Jamison. […]
The lovely, really rather special 1986 comedy-drama film Echo Park stars Susan Dey, Tom Hulce and Michael Bowen, and follows the lives of Los Angeles aspiring actors, musicians and models. Director Robert Dornhelm’s 1986 Austria/ […]
Jodie Foster stars as little 11-year-old Deirdre Striden, who is dying of heart disease, in the sad 1976 family drama film Echoes of a Summer. Richard Harris and Lois Nettleton play her desperate parents. Director […]
A raw energy, an exceptional cast, flashy visuals and Ry Cooder’s score keep Walter Hill’s misfiring 1989 neo-noir crime thriller film Johnny Handsome rattling along. Mickey Rourke and Ellen Barkin star. Director Walter Hill’s 1989 […]