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 […]
Arthur Haley’s bestselling novel about the dramas at a grand hotel (the imaginary St Gregory in New Orleans) gets the glossy, over-elaborate, rather laborious Hollywood treatment in director Richard Quine’s 1967 film Hotel. It is […]
‘CHICKEN-RACE … ROCK ‘N ROLL … YOUTH ON THE LOOSE!’ ‘ARE THESE OUR CHILDREN? Teenage terrorists tearing up the streets!’ Director Leslie H Martinson’s campy 1956 black and white teensploitation action psychotronic film Hot Rod […]