Co-writer/ director Clare Peploe’s odd 1995 comedy film reworking of a vintage 1944 thriller novel by expert James Hadley Chase called Miss Shumway Waves a Wand is an extremely well crafted, interesting movie but a bit of […]
Five years on from Pacific Rim (2013), they have ditched all the things that made the first film pretty good, including the stars and the director, and have replaced them with moderate or mediocre stuff. Pacific Rim: […]
Jerry Morgan: ‘You know, I don’t think I’m crazy. I think I’m a little bit peculiar, but that’s not crazy.’ Danny Kaye is enjoyably indulged by the talented Norman Panama and Melvin Frank writer-producer-director team […]
Sir Simon de Canterville: ‘Excuse me, I really must gibber at the oriole window.’ Director Jules Dassin’s 1943 fantasy comedy is freely based on the delightful Oscar Wilde story and is full of lighthearted whimsy […]
Warren William takes over as Michael Lanyard in the first and finest of his nine stabs at the Lone Wolf character, with a screen play by Jonathan Latimer, based on a story by Louis Joseph Vance). The Lone Wolf […]
Francis Lederer signs up as The Lone Wolf for one episode only, taking over from Melvyn Douglas in the sequel to The Lone Wolf Returns (1935). Frances Drake co-stars as a rival robber posing as princess […]
Columbia Pictures successfully revives the Lone Wolf jewel thief character created by Louis Joseph Vance in 1914 in the first of his series of eight novels, already the subject of nine movies, and casts Melvyn […]
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