Warner Bros’ 1945 American spy film Confidential Agent stars Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall, and is based on the novel by Graham Greene, who strongly defended both the film and Bacall against widespread attack. Director Herman Shumlin’s […]
Co-writer/ director/ star Woody Allen’s hilarious 1973 comedy comes from his fresh, happy, carefree knockabout comedy salad days. He was 29 at the time. Written by Allen and Marshall Brickman, it is an infectiously exuberant, […]
Director Douglas Sirk’s 1948 film noir mystery thriller tells a rather familiar suspense story about a conniving Richard Courtland (Don Ameche) trying to drive his rich wife Alison Courtland (Claudette Colbert) insane so that he can […]
Co-writer/ director Charles Frend’s modest but amiable 1949 British comedy stars Donald Houston and Meredith Edwards as Welsh coal-mining brothers David ‘Dai Number 9’ Jones and Thomas ‘Twm’ Jones. The duo come to London to support […]
Director Douglas Sirk’s 1954 3D Western is his sole trip out West. It is a follow-up to 1950’s Broken Arrow with the star of that film, Jeff Chandler (again playing the Apache chief Cochise), staying […]
‘The FLASH of a Knife… The SCREAM of a Girl… The WRECK of a Man…’ Hollywood goes Russian in German-born director Douglas Sirk’s really rather splendid 1944 film noir-style crime drama adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s […]
Cult director Douglas Sirk’s intriguing 1946 film stars George Sanders performs with his usual easy elegance in this stylish, twisty and amusing comedy adventure about a notorious real-life 18th/ 19th-century French character called François-Eugène Vidocq. […]
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