‘Dice was his vice. Men hers.’ In his last film, distinguished director George Stevens abandoned epic statements for a small-scale story, based on Frank D Gilroy’s play, with a screenplay written by Frank D Gilroy. […]
‘THEY WERE SIX AND THEY FOUGHT LIKE SIX HUNDRED!’ Director Gordon Douglas’s 1950 Western is based on the 1943 novel by Charles Marquis Warren and is basically a dirty-half-dozen, with plenty of manly appeal. Gregory Peck […]
Jeff Schechtman, the co-producer of Piranha (1978), went on to produce a troubled sequel, Piranha Part Two: The Spawning [Piranha II: The Spawning], in 1981, directed by James Cameron no less. It stars Tricia O’Neil […]
Writer/ director Victor Salva’s 1995 drama Powder is a weird Buena Vista Pictures [Walt Disney] teen fantasy tale of a freakish, bald, deathly-white misfit teenager (Sean Patrick Flanery) with paranormal powers, who realises his potential through […]
Director Louis King’s 1953 Western stars Cameron Mitchell as Mitch Herdin, an alcoholic doctor with a brain tumour, who helps new Wyatt Earp-like marshal Chino Bullock (Rory Calhoun), who is trying to find his prospecting […]
‘With a guitar and a snakeskin jacket he drifted out of the rain… into the lives of these two women…’ Tennessee Williams’s second-level 1957 tragic play Orpheus Descending gets the extravagant full-monty emoting it needs […]
‘I’M THE LAW IN TOMBSTONE.’ Director Allan Dwan 1939 Western is the second film of Stuart N Lake’s book Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, following Lewis Seiler’s Frontier Marshal (1934). Lake’s biography, published two years after Earp’s death […]
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