Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1940 vintage black and white MGM romance Waterloo Bridge is a sweet, tear-jerking winner, although it cries out for Technicolor when Joseph Ruttenberg shoots it in black and white. Though Vivien Leigh […]
Director James Whale’s 1931 Universal Pictures vintage romance is the first of three versions of Robert E Sherwood’s play, which made good movies but had a disappointingly short run on the Broadway stage. Kent Douglass […]
Writer/ producer/ director Ross Cramer’s 1978 British comedy short film about commuters on the 8.15 from Surbiton train racing up north to central London from Waterloo Station on the River Thames’s South Bank via Waterloo Bridge […]
Noël Coward’s enjoyably ambiguous ménage à trois play gets the famous golden touch from producer-director Ernst Lubitsch, in this light-hearted, fairly sparkling 1933 movie version of a great sophisticated night in the theatre. The star […]
Director Rudolph Maté’s robust 1950 Western stars Alan Ladd, who plays a cool crook baddie called Choya, posing as cattle baron Charles Bickford’s and his wife Selena Royle’s long-vanished son, abducted years ago to swindle […]
Kevin Costner stars as Dr Joe Darrow, who is dogged by strange events when he tries to get over the recent death of his wife. Could she be trying to contact him? Director Tom Shadyac’s […]
A daft exploitation movie title hides director Byron Haskin’s imaginative, intelligent and involving 1964 Sci-Fi version of Daniel Defoe’s classic tale with Paul Mantee as Commander Kit Draper, a US astronaut whose craft is afflicted […]
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