Director Douglas Sirk’s 1943 wartime drama was suggested as a World War Two moral-boosting movie by Eleanor Roosevelt, the US First Lady (1933-45), and is based on a tragic real story, though slightly fictionalized. It […]
Director Barnet Kellman’s 1992 film is a good-natured comedy with a typically spunky performance by Dolly Parton as Shirlee, a small town spouter of home truths, who gets a job as a hit Chicago radio talk […]
Director Alan J Pakula’s 1978 modern-day 1940s-set Western is impressive and relishable, even if it is not entirely successful. Jane Fonda and James Caan play Ella Connors and ‘Buck’ Athearn, Montana ranch-owners who fight wicked […]
Double Oscar-nominee Richard Farnsworth (1920–2000) is the oldest nominee for the Academy Award for Best Actor at 79 years and 167 days for The Straight Story (1999). At 73, Alvin Straight (Farnsworth) is having a troubled old age […]
Meryl Streep heads an outstanding cast in Fred Schepisi’s 1985 film of the David Hare play about Susan Traherne, an Englishwoman whose work for the French resistance in World War Two eclipses all of her […]
A commanding performance by Richard Farnsworth, the former ace stuntman turned distinguished star character actor, adds fire and feeling to director Philip Borsos’s 1982 Canadian film account of real-life Old West highwayman Bill Miner, who […]
Director Henry Levin’s 1967 movie is the third of the four Matt Helm spy spoof films, following the hits The Silencers and Murderers’ Row (1966). Only one man – Dean Martin’s fondly remembered Sixties top-secret […]
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