Director Joseph Anthony’s vivacious 1958 romantic comedy drama The Matchmaker is an engaging and amusing film version of the enduring, entertaining 1955 Thornton Wilder stage classic about the 1884 Yonkers scheming middle-aged widow matchmaker Dolly Levi […]
The 1957 drama film Fear Strikes Out stars young Anthony Perkins as Jimmy Piersall, a shy, fearful youth plunged into mental turmoil over his father (Karl Malden)’s overpowering need to make him a baseball player. […]
Ted Berkman’s first book Cast a Giant Shadow is about ‘Mickey Marcus’, a real-life Jewish-American West Point graduate who commanded units of the fledgling Israeli Defence Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It makes challenging source material for any film maker. Writer-producer-director […]
Asked to make his directorial debut by longtime producer friend A C Lyles, James Cagney takes his one and only walk behind the cameras to direct this carefully made, fairly successful and effective American film noir version of Graham […]
Director Harry L Fraser’s 1934 early John Wayne B-movie for Lone Star and Monogram Pictures stars The Duke as an undercover lawman, Randy Bowers, who breaks out of jail after being framed for murder in […]
Director Glenn Tryon’s 1938 RKO movie The Law West of Tombstone is an above-average little B-movie Western, mixing action, comedy, history, music and romance, with a decent cast, a good tale and memorably interesting characters based on […]
Universal-International’s 1953 American biographical crime Western film The Lawless Breed, directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Rock Hudson and Julie Adams, tells a romanticised story of the life of outlaw John Wesley Hardin. Rock Hudson […]
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