The Blues Brothers stars John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd team up again for director John G Avildsen’s surprisingly feebly written (by the talented screenplay writer Larry Gelbart) 1981 movie tale of suburban discord and the […]
Tom Kempinski’s hit play about the violinist struck down by multiple sclerosis makes only a half-successful film in 1986. The half success is the story itself and Julie Andrews’s surprisingly acute performance in the main […]
Unfortunately, Elliott Arnold and James R Webb’s screenplay stretches credibility to the hilt and beyond in director J Lee Thompson’s elaborate 1963 historical drama about the ancient Mayan civilisation, in which Yul Brynner strikes beefcake poses […]
Director Anthony Asquith’s super-sleek, plush, purring but featherweight 1964 portmanteau movie (anthology film) The Yellow Rolls-Royce follows the fortunes of three different owners of this Phantom II yellow Rolls-Royce from the Twenties to the Forties. […]
Audrey Hepburn makes an incandescent Natasha Rostova and an oddly cast Henry Fonda an intelligent Pierre Bezukhov in director King Vidor’s epic 1956 film version of Leo Tolstoy’s novel about a Russian family’s adventures at […]
Robert Mulligan’s 1965 film Baby the Rain Must Fall is a wet relationships drama starring Lee Remick, Steve McQueen and Don Murray. It is written by Horton Foote from his flop stage play. ‘Don’t call […]
‘He strayed and he paid… She saw to that!’ Director Curtis Bernhardt’s 1951 divorce drama stars Bette Davis, who is on her best form as a woman who is rich, over-ambitious and facing a divorce […]
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