‘Because I’m Chaos, it is my destiny to destroy.’ – Mister Frost. Alan Bates stars as British cop Felix Detweiler, who continues to pursue suave mass murderer Mister Frost (Jeff Goldblum) when he is transferred […]
‘Joe Moses is his name… stealing Africa is his game!’ Director Ronald Neame’s badly dated 1965 adventure film Mister Moses is feeble if well-meaning Boys Own adventure stuff, with a quasi-Bible theme, reworking the story […]
Director Jack Garfein’s 1957 black and white drama The Strange One is a powerful, up-front hothouse US Southern military academy saga, in which Ben Gazzara stars as cadet leader Jocko De Paris, who exercises a […]
Director John Cromwell’s 1930 early sound black and white comedy-drama film Tom Sawyer is the first sound version of the 1876 Mark Twain classic novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It is pleasing though very […]
Director Norman Taurog’s 1931 family comedy Huckleberry Finn [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] is Paramount’s pleasing, now faded second version of the Mark Twain classic (after a 1919 silent with Lewis Sargent as Huckleberry Finn), […]
‘And upon her forehead was written Behold I am the great mother of harlots and all abominations of the Earth.’ Christopher Lee stars in director Philippe Mora’s 1985 cult horror thriller sequel Howling II: Stirba […]
Hollywood’s senior male stars Henry Fonda, James Stewart, John Wayne, Lee J Cobb, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, Eli Wallach and Richard Widmark do sterling service in this exciting, action-packed epic Western version of 50 years […]