Jim Brown stars as an African American man elected as the sheriff of a rural county in the American South, in the 1970 American crime drama thriller film …tick…tick…tick.. Director Ralph Nelson’s 1970 crime drama thriller […]
Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1952 drama film Emergency Call [The Hundred Hour Hunt] stars Jack Warner, Joy Shelton, Anthony Steel, Sidney James and Sydney Tafler. Scotland Yard Inspector Lane (Jack Warner desperately tries to find the […]
Spencer Tracy is excellent as a bootlegging gangster, in the busy 1933 mob movie The Mad Game. Director Irving Cummings’s 1933 American Pre-Code crime drama film The Mad Game stars Spencer Tracy and Claire Trevor, […]
Two dubious stories about Christine Norden. After she died in 1988, part of the planet Venus was named after her as a tribute to her status as Britain’s first postwar sex symbol. In 1967 she […]
The sweet and charming, maybe more bitter-sweet 2016 Italian romantic comedy film L’estate addosso [Summertime] just goes to show that, against all odds, four’s company. He loves her, she loves him, he loves him. Director […]
Ted Kotcheff’s 1962 British comedy-drama film Tiara Tahiti is based on the novel by Geoffrey Cotterell, and stars James Mason and John Mills as wartime adversaries who meet again in Tahiti after the war. Director […]
John Guillermin’s hugely entertaining 1953 British crime thriller film Operation Diplomat is based on the TV serial by Francis Durbridge, and stars Guy Rolfe, Lisa Daniely, Patricia Dainton and Sydney Tafler. ‘INTRIGUE! that could TRIGGER […]