‘Buccaneer’s Alley! Thieves’ Alley! Glory Alley! Street of tough guys, hot tunes, temptation… alive with love and larceny… courage and crime!’ Director Raoul Walsh’s 1952 New Orleans-set MGM black and white musical drama Glory Alley […]
THRILL to the most amazing mystery of your life as a lurid web is woven around the helpless victims of… EDMUND LOWE in THE SPIDER (1931). Directors William Cameron Menzies and Kenneth MacKenna’s intricate, imaginatively […]
Peter Yates’s final film remakes A Separate Peace from the 1959 novel by John Knowles. Director Peter Yates’s 2004 Canadian coming-of-age drama A Separate Peace is a welcome TV movie remake of Larry Pearce’s 1972 […]
Zero Mostel and Harry Belafonte are superb in the sentimental 1970 drama The Angel Levine, based on a short story by Bernard Malamud. Director Jan Kadar’s sentimental 1970 drama The Angel Levine is based on […]
Writer-director Richard Brooks’s 1958 Metrocolor film The Brothers Karamazov turns Fedor Dostoevsky’s 1880 novel into a busy melodrama of a boorish Russian father’s murder, the false imprisonment of one of his three illegitimate sons, boisterous army […]
Director Walter Forde’s 1936 British war film Brown on Resolution [Forever England] stars John Mills, who embodies the character of brave sailor he did so well – here Albert Brown, who joins the Royal Navy […]
Director H C Potter’s 1939 black and white crime drama film Blackmail stars the ever dependable Edward G Robinson, who enlivens a routinely scripted but neatly handled B-movie thriller as an oil well firefighter called […]