Co-writer/ director Lieven Debrauwer’s 2001 film is a heartrending, life-affirming emotional comedy drama focusing on two Dutch sisters in a family of four sisters. In the lead roles, Dora van der Groen (as the 66-year-old Pauline […]
In the third of French writer-director Eric Rohmer‘s series of films Comedies and Proverbs, Parisians talk up a storm about manners and morals on a Normandy beach in a story about two cousins (Amanda Langlet […]
The effective 1947 film noir crime thriller stars Janis Carter as a sultry femme fatale who schemes with a married man (Barry Sullivan) to commit the perfect robbery from his bank and set up a fall guy […]
Director Don Sharp’s extremely entertaining 1978 third film version of John Buchan’s novel The Thirty-Nine Steps finds its purpose in that it is finally a movie that is faithful to the book and its pre-First World […]
Kenneth More does nicely in a smooth turn in the star part of Richard Hannay in director Ralph Thomas’s careful 1959 second screen version of John Buchan’s classic 1915 espionage novel The 39 Steps. Taina […]
Loretta Young – the Best Actress Oscar winner for The Farmer’s Daughter (1947) – stars as Paula Rogers in director Rudolph Maté’s well-crafted, if predictable 1952 weepie. In the drama, Paula tries to teach a young lad (Tommy Rettig) […]
John Argyle’s 1946 British mystery thriller Send for Paul Temple [The Green Finger] gets the Francis Durbridge Paul Temple film series off to a shaky start. Anthony Hulme and Joy Shelton star as novelist Paul […]
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