Richard Todd stars in a dual role in the 1951 British drama film Flesh and Blood, based on the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, about three generations of the Scottish Cameron family. Director […]
Director John Ford’s 1932 MGM black and white drama Flesh stars Wallace Beery, Karen Morley, Ricardo Cortez and Jean Hersholt. The story is by Edmund Goulding, and the screenplay is by Leonard Praskins (adaptation), Edgar […]
Director Jeffrey Dell’s 1943 British film The Flemish Farm is an honourable and conscientious if not particularly distinguished morale-boosting World War Two war drama, apparently based on fact. A well known, respected film in its […]
Director Norman Taurog’s humorous 1934 Paramount Pictures comedy-drama film Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is worth watching for the performers and the laughs, even if the antique emotional manipulation seems too crude today. W […]
‘Before she joined the CIA, Mrs Pollifax thought Red China was a set of dishes.’ Director Leslie H Martinson’s 1971 spy comedy Mrs Pollifax-Spy stars Rosalind Russell as the title character, and finds the always […]
Jennifer Jason Leigh is very effective as the mannered acid wit and writer Dorothy Parker in Alan Rudolph’s posh and good-looking but gossipy and suitably bitchy 1994 biopic Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle, from a […]
Director Edward Buzzell 1950 comedy feature film Emergency Wedding (Jealousy in the UK) stars Larry Parks and Barbara Hale. It is a contrived, artificial and mediocre remake of the not specially impressive You Belong to […]