Raymond Burr stars in director William F Claxton’s 1960 Deep South film noir crime melodrama as wealthy Southerner, Colonel Ben Marquand, who greets ex-convict Lonnie Wilson (Ken Scott) after he has served six years in […]
Robert Mitchum stars as the presumed dead soldier Paul Aubert, who comes home to Brittany from war service in World War Two to find his battle and German prison camp buddy Jean (Richard Hart, from […]
Director Henry Koster’s 1954 Désirée is an undesirable, wan, pointlessly fictionalised version of the Napoleon story, with a miscast Marlon Brando looking forlorn and unhappy as young Napoleon Bonaparte. There are not many sparks either from […]
Director Delbert Mann’s 1958 movie of playwright Eugene O’Neill’s Desire under the Elms stars Sophia Loren as Anna, who intrudes into a theatrical version of 19th-century New England, marries Ephraim Cabot (Burl Ives) and has […]
Actress Ruth Gordon turned her early life as a stage-struck Massachusetts teenager into a Broadway play, Years Ago, and now into a film, director George Cukor’s 1953 The Actress, for which she writes the screenplay. […]
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. […]
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