Producer-director-showman Cecil B DeMille goes West in 1937 — and he does not take his history book along with him. But he does take a cast of thousands of Indians, lots of Paramount’s money, and […]
Director André de Toth’s last movie is Play Dirty from 1969 and it stars Michael Caine as the British captain in charge of a gang of ex-con soldiers who must obliterate Nazi oil supplies deep […]
Director Guy Green’s tasteful and quite rousing 1962 British romantic drama Light in the Piazza is sweetly told, expertly made and neatly acted, and is notable for its extensive location shooting in Florence and Rome […]
Ann-Margret, Carol Lynley and Pamela Tiffin star as attractive young American holidaymakers who find husbands (Tony Franciosa, Gardner McKay and André Lawrence) and pretty views in Madrid in director Jean Negulesco’s tepid 1964 remake of […]
Warner Bros’ fascinating and provocative 1931 crime drama film Safe in Hell stars Dorothy Mackaill as Gilda Karlson, a New Orleans hooker who flees to a Caribbean island after apparently killing Piet Van Saal (Ralf […]
Producer-director James Cruze’s trail-blazing 1923 silent Western is faded but important historically and it still impresses. Cruze’s major movie is one of the first American epics and notable for elevating the Western from popular potboiler to important epic. […]
Mark Rydell’s 1972 movie The Cowboys is an unusual and successful Seventies Western with John Wayne giving one of his most impressive late performances as a tough cattleman who has to accept the help of […]
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