The three Richards – Richard Widmark, Richard Boone and Richard Crenna – star in director Joseph M Newman’s 1952 action adventure drama Red Skies of Montana [Smoke Jumpers], a run-of-the-mill tale of US Forest Service […]
Director James Goldstone’s 1971 drama Red Sky at Morning is based on the novel by Richard Bradford and stars Richard Thomas as young Joshua Arnold, who moves to New Mexico in 1944 as his dad […]
Hammer Films’ tame and tiring 1974 sex comedy Man About the House is spun off from the popular 39-episode Seventies British TV series Man About the House (1973–1976) about two young women, Chrissy and Jo, […]
Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams star as amateur crooks Reese Halperin (Sutherland) and Stacey Bishop (Adams), who find a computerised way to rob a Vancouver bank, in director Noel Black’s generally amusing, often tense Seventies […]
Al Jolson stars as minstrel singer Al Fuller, in director Michael Curtiz’s sparky 1930 behind-the-scenes theatre musical Mammy, with a shooting, an Irving Berlin score and Louise Dresser all thrown in as Mammy. Jolson has […]
Director Gene Saks’s 1974 Mame is the way less than satisfactory movie of the all-time great Jerry Herman Broadway show, though even so it is a bit of a one-hit wonder – the title track […]
Director Walter Forde’s 1939 British Ealing Studios black and white movie The Four Just Men [The Secret Four] is a spiffing film of Edgar Wallace’s famed spy thriller story about four righteous vigilante Brits (Hugh […]