The sterling 1949 film noir crime drama Side Street is a memorable rematch for Farley Granger and Cathy O’Donnell after They Live by Night (1948). Director Anthony Mann’s sterling 1949 film noir crime drama Side Street […]
Marcel Carné’s gorgeously atmospheric 1946 French semi-classic film tells a typically doomed love story and is set in the nocturnal, winter Paris of the immediate post-war period. Yves Montand and Raymond Bussières play buddies who […]
Director James Whale’s haunting bitter-sweet 1938 MGM romantic drama might not entirely be typical for him, but nevertheless it is good material for him to get to work on. It is based on Marcel Pagnol’s […]
Director Laslo Benedek’s 1949 film noir thriller stars a pre-bald Yul Brynner, who makes an auspicious first appearance as the big bad guy Paul Vicola in this story of dope dealing, deceit and death. Scott […]
Dean Jagger stars as US Customs Department Agent Cliff Holden, who is in hot pursuit of the thieving gem-runners who have murdered his buddy co-worker, in producer-director Joseph Lerner’s breezy, tough-edged, quick-moving realist 1949 B-movie […]
‘He can see the future. But can he escape it? ‘ David Cronenberg’s eerie 1983 movie version of Stephen King’s seminal 1979 sci-fi horror thriller novel boasts a performance of unusual, quiet dignity from Christopher […]
Director Ralph Thomas’s 1967 British thriller Deadlier than the Male is a rather desperate attempt to bring classic author Sapper’s hero Bulldog Drummond alive and kicking into the swinging Sixties. Nigel Green plays criminal mastermind […]
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