Director Anthony Mann’s neat and well-plotted 1947 low-budget crime thriller Railroaded! stars John Ireland, Sheila Ryan, Hugh Beaumont, and Jane Randolph. It is an incisive, dour, dark-toned little 40s film-noir mobster tale with John Ireland […]
Director Hugo Fregonese’s 1954 Panoramic Productions/ 20th Century Fox Western film The Raid stars Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin, Tommy Rettig and Peter Graves. It is shot in beautiful Technicolor colour by […]
The 1979 music mystery drama Radio On is a chilly but clever road movie, in which a radio station disc jockey called Robert (played by David Beames) drives from London to Bristol to investigate his […]
The excellent Roy Marsden gives another impeccable, grave performance as P D James’s sensitive copper Commander Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard, who investigates a macabre murder on England’s Suffolk coast linked to a currency fraud, […]
Director Christopher Petit’s 1982 crime mystery thriller An Unsuitable Job for a Woman is an intriguing and largely successful if too tricksy film version of P D James’s twisting 1972 novel featuring her female detective […]
Director Peter Hall’s 1969 British drama Three into Two Won’t Go stars Rod Steiger as Steve Howard, a businessman whose unsteady marriage to his wife Frances (Claire Bloom) is tipped over into chaos by a […]
Director Simon Moore’s appealing 1997 British comedy drama with songs Up on the Roof, based on the award-winning stage play by Simon Moore and Jane Prowse, who also write the screenplay, is a tuneful, funny, […]