Director Guy Green’s 1955 black and white British mystery crime film Portrait of Alison [Postmark for Danger] is an amazingly convoluted and satisfyingly entertaining whodunit thriller, based on Francis Durbridge’s popular Fifties TV serial, about […]
‘ADVENTURE AS FIERY AND FURIOUS AS THE FLAMING SANDS OF CHINA’S GOBI DESERT!’ Director Robert Wise’s 1953 drama Destination Gobi, his first film in colour, is an engrossing war adventure about US Navy men on […]
Kirk Douglas directs himself in the 1973 adventure film Scalawag as Pete, a ‘yo-ho-ho’ one-legged pirate searching for hidden treasure in Mexico. Scalawag is an unsubtle reworking of Treasure Island, with decent sets, costumes and […]
The 1975 Western film Posse stars Kirk Douglas as Texas right-wing lawman Howard Nightingale, who leads a posse to capture the infamous outlaw Jack Strawhorn (Bruce Dern). Director Kirk Douglas’s 1975 Western film Posse stars […]
Director Herbert Coleman’s 1961 Posse from Hell stars Audie Murphy, who rides in as a tough former gunfighter called Banner Cole, heading the search for a murderous band of four ex-cons, all convicted killers who […]
Director Ingmar Bergman’s 1975 Swedish film The Magic Flute [Trollflöjten] is a magical filming of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s great opera, eavesdropping on a performance at Drottningholm’s 18th century court theatre in Stockholm. With Sven Nykvist’s […]
Director Jacques Tourneur’s 1949 Easy Living stars Victor Mature as football star Pete Wilson, who matures and realises the game doesn’t make him or his greedy wife Liza (Lizabeth Scott) happy. His retired buddy Tim […]