L P Hartley’s class-conscious novel set in 1923 about a chauffeur, Steven Ledbetter (Robert Shaw), who befriends and falls for his posh, disturbed mistress Lady Franklin (Sarah Miles) may be a trifle thin and sedate as cinema. […]
Director Peter H Hunt’s 1972 movie is an interesting but ordinary film of Sherman Edwards’s hit Broadway stage musical about America’s independence. The Broadway production won 1969 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Featured Actor in […]
Director Arthur Penn’s classic 1970 epic Western stars Dustin Hoffman, who gives a bravura performance as Jack Crabb, 121-year-old survivor of Little Big Horn, who recounts his tall story as an adopted Cheyenne and buddy […]
John Wayne re-creates his Oscar-winning one-eyed U.S. Marshal Rooster J Cogburn act from True Grit (1969) and makes like he is Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen (1951) romancing the one and only Hepburn as feisty spinster […]
This 1958 horror sci-fi shocker from director Jack Arnold, the maker of the 1957 classic The Incredible Shrinking Man, cannot perhaps attain the same excellent high standard of that one. But, even so, it is […]
Director Otto Preminger’s 1975 terrorist thriller film tells the spectacularly dud tale of wealthy girls abducted by Arabs from the titular yacht Rosebud. A Palestinian terrorist group is responsible. Though more or less a total failure, the […]
If you want to put yourself in a bad mood before Christmas, this is an even better bet than A Bad Moms Christmas. A dismally unfunny, slapstick, sentimental script sinks this wretched seasonal sequel to […]
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