‘POLICE SLAY GAMBLING CZAR…AS EDITOR ESCAPES DEATH! ‘ Director William C Thomas’s sharp and intriguing 1947 film noir is written by Whitman Chambers and stars Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Richard Travis and Ann Gillis. There are plenty of thrills […]
Richard Brooks’s 1965 film adaptation the gloomy 1900 Joseph Conrad novel was always going to be difficult to film and hard going. But Peter O’Toole is excellent as Lord Jim and there is good star […]
Claude Rains stars in Warner Bros’ enjoyably far-fetched 1947 film noir mystery movie The Unsuspected as a suave radio host turned murderer who investigates his own perfect murder on his crime mystery show. Joan Caulfield […]
Director Raoul Walsh’s 1953 film tells a steamy story along the familiar lines of the power corrupts theme, but it comes up fresh again as it is powerfully and briskly done in the hands of […]
Director Clarence Brown’s shaky 1936 historical drama is notable for the romantic teaming of two of MGM’s finest, Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor, as hussy innkeeper’s daughter Peggy O’Neal Eaton and the US navy lieutenant she […]
Director Herbert Ross’s expensive ($9 million) big-scale musical version of the famous 1939 Robert Donat weepie was a dangerously risky idea in the radical days of 1969 and it duly flopped despite the MGM fanfare […]
Director Jeremy Summers’s inventive and amusing 1965 British short comedy tells the story of the misadventures of a British camper-van family led by Dad and Mum (David Lodge, Joan Sims) wordlessly with just a soundtrack and sound effects. The […]
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