The Comedians (1967) is a distinguished and exciting film of Graham Greene’s great novel set in despotic Papa Doc Duvalier’s turbulent and violent Haiti. It’s an important serious piece of work for the Richard Burton-Elizabeth […]
The endearingly daft 1963 film Crooks in Cloisters is a happy reminder of the pleasantly simpler days of British comedy when characters were called Bikini (Barbara Windsor of course), Squirts (Bernard Cribbins) and Specs (Davy […]
Vincent Price stars in the funny 1963 black comedy horror movie The Comedy of Terrors as the evil undertaker Waldo Trumbull, who owes a year’s rent and lacks customers, so he finds a neat solution […]
‘Adventure Beyond The Fabulous! Two Years In The Making!’ Director Byron Haskin’s 1954 adventure movie stars Burt Lancaster as an American 19th-century adventurer-sailor, sea captain David Dion O’Keefe, who journeys to the South Seas, where he […]
Writer/ producer/ director Samuel Fuller’s 1957 movie is gung-ho war adventure stuff, but with considerable edge and intelligence, in which a French-led multinational group of adventurers attack a Communist ammo dump in Indo-China in 1954. […]
Director Robert Aldrich’s strong, powerfully handled 1954 Western film Apache stars Burt Lancaster, who gives a charismatic, athletic performance as Apache warrior Massai, an alienated Indian leader carrying on a single-handed war against the white […]
Writer/ producer/ director Samuel Fuller’s 1957 Western stars Barbara Stanwyck as ranch-owner, 40 armed-men-owner and queen of Arizona’s Cochise County, Jessica Drummond. Stanwyck’s Jessica Drummond protects her wicked brother Brockie Drummond (John Ericson) against two marshal brothers, […]
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