Producer-director Martin Ritt’s double Oscar-winning 1979 drama Norma Rae was a triumph for him and his plucky star Sally Field, who deservedly, though unexpectedly, won her first Academy Award as Norma Rae, the underpaid young American […]
Robert Benton’s 1984 US Deep South drama film Places in the Heart was a triumph for him and his star Sally Field, who won her second Best Actress Oscar as a sheriff’s widow fighting for her […]
Cornel Wilde stars in directors George Sherman and Henry Levin’s 1945 American swashbuckling adventure movie as Robin Hood (Russell Hicks)’s little-known son Robert of Nottingham. Robert romps through Sherwood Forest to stop the wicked Prince […]
Producer-director Stanley Kramer’s grand, double Oscar-winning 1965 movie soap opera Ship of Fools is set aboard a second-rate German ocean liner sailing the Atlantic from Veracruz, Mexico, to Bremerhaven, Germany, in 1933. The liner may […]
It’s the last day of high school, and Charlie Day stars as an easy-going, good-natured school teacher who, to save his own job, gets another (angry and erratic) teacher (Ice Cube) fired after he chops […]
Timothy Bond directs a tolerable but undistinguished 1992 Canadian third film version of The Lost World, with David Warner, John Rhys-Davies and Eric McCormack, plus location filming in Zimbabwe. Rhys-Davies is well cast as Professor […]
Director Irwin Allen’s 1960 US adventure movie is the second film version of the famous Arthur Conan Doyle novel about team of scientists and adventurer explorers heading off to the South American Amazonian jungle in […]
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