Co-writer/ director Ben Wheatley’s 2016 black comedy action movie is an often funny but disreputable and not very fresh feeling Tarantino-style crime thriller, with a script (by Wheatley and Amy Jump) that looks like they were making […]
The likeable and entertaining 1937 British double-murder mystery thriller film Silver Blaze stars the ideal Arthur Wontner in his fifth and final portrayal of Sherlock Holmes. The 1937 British black-and-white double-murder mystery thriller film Silver […]
The Sign of Four (1932) is the engaging third film in the 1931–1937 British crime series starring Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes, on the case of a lady in peril, a one-legged escaped killer, two […]
The 1931 British mystery film The Sleeping Cardinal is the first in the 1931–37 crime series starring Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes. A young London attaché is blackmailed by Professor Moriarty into transporting counterfeit money to Paris. Director Leslie […]
Arthur Wontner stars for the fourth time as Sherlock Holmes, confronting evil nemesis Professor Moriarty (Lyn Harding) in the enjoyable 1935 British mystery film The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes, based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1915 novel The Valley of Fear. Director […]
‘Heil! Heil! Heil!’ Producer-writer-director Leni Riefenstahl’s legendary infamous 1935 Nazi film of the Third Reich’s 1934 Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg, Germany, Triumph of the Will [Triumph des Willens], is astonishing as documentary and frightening […]
Polish director Andrzej Wajda’s 1981 sequel to Man of Marble (1978) is a highly impressive award-winner as the recipient of the Palme d’Or and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. The […]
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