The 1971 Western film One More Train to Rob, about the aftermath of an assault on a trainload of gold ending up with the hero being framed and sent to prison, features a star turn […]
Director Guy Green’s 1970 film A Walk in the Spring Rain is a ghastly romantic drama, based on Rachel Maddox’s novel, wasting the talents of the great Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Quinn, both still in […]
Director Steve Kroschel’s 1999 Avalanche is a feeble, cheap-looking action thriller, with Thomas Ian Griffith as a chopper pilot working with an environmentalist couple (C Thomas Howell, Caroleen Feeney) in Alaska, tagging foxes for the […]
Director Corey Allen’s 1978 action drama Avalanche is a minor, just passable disaster movie, unexpectedly from producer Roger Corman, made and distributed by New World Pictures, with a six million-ton avalanche spelling doom for trippers at […]
Director Darcy Conyers’s 1961 comedy In the Doghouse has us in mild stitches with James Herriot-type adventures, this time adapted from the novel It’s a Vet’s Life by Alex Duncan, in a screenplay by the […]
Director Gregory Ratoff’s 1939 black and white musical Rose of Washington Square stars Alice Faye, who grabs one of her best chances as Rose Sargent, a 1920s New York singer trying to perform a difficult […]
Writer-director Jerzy Skolimowski’s 1982 British drama Moonlighting is a fascinating allegorical piece about deceit and theft, with a sterling performance by Jeremy Irons as contractor Nowak, the leader of a small band of Polish workers […]