‘Question: What is the surest way to keep a husband home? Answer: Break both his legs.’ Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy leave their wives to go golfing, chased off by Mrs Hardy (Kay Deslys) after […]
Director Jerzy Skolimowski’s 1978 The Shout is a thin, arty, anecdotal horror drama film from Robert Graves’s short story about a man at a mental hospital who says that the Aborigines taught him how to […]
A chaotic cross-country escapade is the setting for director Marco Brambilla’s Excess Baggage (1997), an offbeat, fast-paced, outrageously quirky mix of caper comedy, action thriller and romance. Alicia Silverstone stars as petulant teenager Emily, who […]
Director Boris Sagal’s 1964 Guns of Diablo is a short, simple theatrical feature carved out from a two-part episode of the one-season TV Western series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963-64). Guns of Diablo is […]
Writer-director Jesús Franco’s 1962 Spanish horror movie The Awful Dr Orloff [Gritos en la noche] stars Howard Vernon as Dr Orloff. He is a mad doctor who kidnaps beautiful women to operate on them and […]
A good yarn based on Elizabeth Myers’s novel Mrs Christopher becomes a rather artificial and tame British thriller in 1951 as Blackmailed, but with a good, hard-working cast headed by Dirk Bogarde and Mai Zetterling, […]
Director Gerry Levy’s odd, promising but unsatisfactory little 1969 British sci-fi picture The Body Stealers [Thin Air] has a story about British armed forces parachutists vanishing apparently into thin air (or red mist in this […]