Director Karel Reisz’s great-looking 1968 British biopic of the 1920s ‘modern’ dancer Isadora Duncan is flawed but fascinating. Even if she herself is no dancer, Vanessa Redgrave impresses in an Oscar-nominated performance that exactly captures […]
Producer Alexander Korda comes up with the good idea of teaming Marlene Dietrich and Robert Donat shortly before World War Two with the lavishly atmospheric 1937 period thriller film Knight without Armour, based on James […]
Director Karel Reisz’s 1990 thriller Everybody Wins stars Nick Nolte as a private eye who is called to a peaceful New England town by a quirky, beguiling, perhaps unstable hooker (Debra Winger) to prove a […]
Director W S Van Dyke II’s well-cast and intriguing British-set 1941 suspense thriller is based on a book by British novelist James Hilton, author of Goodbye, Mr Chips (1939), Knight without Armour (1937), Lost Horizon (1937), and Random Harvest (1942). […]
The young Albert Finney stars as the psycho live-in handyman Danny, in Karel Reisz’s 1964 British black and white film Night Must Fall, a remake of the 1937 film of the 1935 Emlyn Williams stage hit. […]
MGM’s creepy 1937 thriller film Night Must Fall is the well-crafted original version of Emlyn Williams’s 1935 stage success chiller about a charming but psychopathic live-in companion (Robert Montgomery), who preys on a vain old […]
Sissy Spacek, fresh from her Oscar for Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980), gets her husband Jack Fisk to direct her as Nita Longley, a spunky wartime divorcée, whose two sons are jealous when handsome sailor Eric Roberts arrives […]
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