Co-writer/ director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s beautifully acted and exquisitely crafted 1947 French policier thriller Quai des Orfrèvres is outstanding even in a genre the French regularly do so well. In Paris’s equivalent to Scotland Yard, the 36, […]
Director Ralph Thomas’s earnest and effective 1955 British World War Two wartime drama focuses on a brave band of British sailors (led by John Mills as commander Fraser, James Robertson Justice as admiral Ryder and John […]
Director Anthony Asquith’s excellent 1943 tale of wartime life at home (a brief shore leave) and at sea for a British submarine crew on the HMS Sea Tiger stars John Mills as the skipper, Captain […]
Director Michael Anderson provides a lively showcase for the lavish decor of the dubious 23rd century paradise that he conjures up in his good, crowd-pleasing 1976 sci-fi movie with the accent on pace, entertainment value […]
Karel Reisz’s classic 1959 British ‘Free Cinema’ documentary film looks at the lives of boys in a South London youth club, with revealing glances at their humdrum work lives. There is an amusing and telling […]
Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep apparently so enjoyed making Heartburn (1986) together that they immediately made another movie together, this time playing alcoholic drifter Francis Phelan and his former radio singer friend Helen Archer, begging for work […]
Director Karel Reisz obscures his gripping Seventies story about heroin-smuggling among Vietnam veterans by putting his energies into conjuring up atmosphere and character, making this a depressing study of troubled characters in a downbeat drama […]
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