Eric Idle is supposed to be a young man called Tommy cheated out of his inheritance by American-raised impostor Henry (Rick Moranis), with whom he was swapped at birth. So he connives with Moranis’s fiancée […]
Producer-director Ted Kotcheff’s thought-provoking 1982 drama film Split Image stars Michael O’Keefe, Karen Allen, Peter Fonda, James Woods, Elizabeth Ashley, Brian Dennehy, Ronnie Scribner, and Michael Sacks. Michael O’Keefe plays middle-class, all-American college athlete Danny […]
Director Lewis Seiler’s 1934 Western film Frontier Marshal stars George O’Brien, Irene Bentley, George E Stone and Alan Edwards. George O’Brien plays lawman Wyatt Earp (though he is actually named Michael Wyatt for legal reasons) […]
The 1985 film Twice in a Lifetime is an excellent drama about a 50-year-old married steel mill worker (Gene Hackman) who falls out with his wife (Ellen Burstyn}, falls into the arms of a barmaid […]
Writer-director Lucien Hubbard’s 1928 film Rose-Marie is the first of MGM’s three versions of the Broadway show. Alas, this film is believed lost. It stars Joan Crawford and James Murray, and features House Peters, Creighton […]
Writer-director Val Guest’s 1947 British comedy sequel Just William’s Luck is based on the beloved stories of Richmal Crompton, and stars William Graham, Garry Marsh, Leslie Bradley, A E Matthews, Jane Welsh, Brian Roper, James […]
Randolph Scott stars as the anti-hero, escaped convict Jim Carey, in the swift, simple, very familiarly themed 1949 Western film The Walking Hills, with nicely measured performances and capable handling from cowboy movie expert John […]