Director Alexander Hall’s 1934 Little Miss Marker [The Girl in Pawn] is a delightful film of Damon Runyon’s fun short story about the grizzly gambler bookmaker Sorrowful Jones (Adolphe Menjou) having to reluctantly adopt cute […]
Writer-director Walter Bernstein’s 1980 comedy Little Miss Marker stars an even more grumpy than usual Walter Matthau as Sorrowful Jones, the bookie blessed with a little bundle of cute trouble, The Kid (Sara Stimson), left […]
Writer-director Ken Hughes’s 1954 British Hammer Films black and white film noir triangle suspense crime drama The House Across the Lake [Heat Wave] is filmed and set in England, and stars Alex Nicol and Hillary […]
The 1963 American comedy film Critic’s Choice is based on the 1960 Broadway play by Ira Levin, and teams Bob Hope and Lucille Ball for the fourth and last time. Director Don Weis’s 1963 American comedy film Critic’s […]
Director John Cornell’s 1988 action adventure comedy Crocodile Dundee II again stars Paul Hogan as laidback man from the Aussie Outback Michael ‘Mick’ ‘Crocodile’ Dundee, who returns with more of the same amiable, easy-going comedy, […]
Director Jack Cardiff’s 1973 Penny Gold has a very friendly cast to recommend it, but it is a creaky old Seventies British thriller about a dead woman’s evil twin sister (Francesca Annis) being involved in a […]
‘Men Against The Sea! Stark Drama No Fiction Can Equal!’ Producer-director Henry Hathaway’s 1937 Souls at Sea is a popular Gary Cooper high seas action adventure about the American navy battling slave traders in the […]