French director Jacques Demy’s first film made in America and in English is hypnotically compelling and shamefully underrated. Demy reunites with Anouk Aimée, who also plays a character named Lola in his debut film Lola […]
Little known director Arthur H Nadel churns out a mediocre, very dull, truly tepid 1967 Elvis Presley musical which deservedly hit the lower half of cinema double bills. Shelley Fabares is the girl cursed with the […]
All the fun of one of Neil Simon’s best Broadway plays makes its way happily from stage onto cinema screens under the guidance of director Robert Moore in 1979. Simon’s autobiographical Broadway hit is all about his courtship and […]
Julien Duvivier’s famous 1937 French classic episodic drama film Un Carnet de Bal stars Marie Bell as Christine Surgère, a newly widowed middle-aged woman obsessed with the memory of a ball she attended at the […]
Director Julien Duvivier’s 1937 French film classic Pépé le Moko is based on the novel by Henri La Barthe and stars Jean Gabin as a gangster on the run in Algiers, who believes he is safe […]
The sleek and shiny 1938 American escapist exotic adventure epic film Algiers stars Charles Boyer as Algiers Casbah jewel thief Pépé le Moko, who falls in love with the beautiful Gaby (Hedy Lamarr). Director John […]
The irresistibly daft 1948 musical fantasy adventure film is gaudily cast with Yvonne De Carlo as the lovely siren Inez, Tony Martin as the thief Pépé Le Moko, and, most treasurably, Peter Lorre. Come viz me […]
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