Edward D Wood Jr strikes again in the 1954 film noir thriller Jail Bait starring Timothy Farrell as gangster Vic Brady, who blackmails a plastic surgeon (Herbert Rawlinson) into giving him a new face to […]
In her final film, aged 39, the Very, Very Popular Betty Grable bows out with writer-director Nunnally Johnson’s thin but amiable 1955 comedy, with only one song by Jules Styne and Sammy Cahn – the title […]
Jane Russell and Jeanne Crain star in director Richard Sale’s disappointingly stodgy 1955 sequel to the fabulous Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) as dark-haired Broadway showgirl sisters who go to Paris to find fame and romance. The […]
Directors Elmo Williams and Herbert Glazer’s 1956 crime melodrama is a minor but intriguing movie from Britain’s Hammer Films studio, promoted with a teasing title that promises something it could hardly deliver in the Fifties. […]
Co-writer/ co-producer/ director Bob Rafelson’s 1976 cult comedy drama film Stay Hungry stars Jeff Bridges as restless Alabama heir Craig Blake, who is suddenly orphaned. He turns his back on the country club values and […]
Director Edward H Griffith’s skillful and purringly pleasing if minor 1943 RKO musical The Sky’s the Limit stars Fred Astaire as Fred Atwell, a Flying Tiger squadron aviator who flies into New York on leave […]
Director Walter Forde’s original 1931 The Ghost Train is the second version (after a 1927 silent) of playwright Arnold Ridley’s classic stage farcical thriller about stranded travellers, a detective in disguise and smugglers at a […]
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