Co-writer/ director Luis Buñuel’s 1955 Mexican thriller is a typical, weird Buñuel black comedy fantasy starring Ernesto Alonso as Archibaldo de la Cruz, a man who is obsessed with killing women with his music box […]
Director Robert Rossen’s intriguing 1951 made-in-Mexico romantic bullfight drama stars Mel Ferrer as matador Luis Bello, who is knee deep in devastating troubles. First he loses his confidence in the bull ring, after he nearly […]
‘ The pistolero…who was as proud as the mighty black stallion he rode…the man who hungered for the softness of a woman and the clean skies of The Wonderful Country!’ They sure don’t write ’em like […]
Angela Lansbury described the Tony Curtis swashbuckler The Purple Mask as ‘the worst movie I ever made’. Director H Bruce Humberstone’s colourful 1955 costume-adventure swashbuckler The Purple Mask is set in 1803 France shortly after […]
Raoul Walsh’s brooding, gritty and very impressive 1947 Western film Pursued boasts tremendous performances and startling noir-style cinematography by the masterly James Wong Howe. ‘Robert Mitchum fights for the love of three people who want […]
Director Robert Parrish’s fine, distinguished 1954 British wartime adventure drama stars Gregory Peck as Squadron Leader Bill Forrester, a Canadian bomber pilot who is reckless after losing his bride in a Luftwaffe air raid. He […]
Director Raoul Walsh’s 1958 British paella Western packs in a lot of easy-going silly comedy fun from Jayne Mansfield as the buxom, pistol-packing blonde Kate, and Kenneth More as Jonathan Tibbs, the pistol-maker from England […]
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