James Stewart stars in one of his most famous and warmly regarded roles in director Billy Wilder’s spirited and lavish 1957 biography of aviator Charles A Lindberg, detailing his historic flight from New York to […]
Director Billy Wilder’s pointed 1948 cynical comedy stars Jean Arthur, who oozes charisma as Phoebe Frost, an American politician on a Congressional committee delegation to US forces in occupied Berlin to investigate GIs’ morals there. Frost’s frostiness […]
‘A beautiful woman by day – a lusting queen wasp by night.’ Producer-director Roger Corman’s ultra-low budget 1959 sci-fi horror film stars Susan Cabot as a thirtysomething cosmetic mogul called Janice Starlin, who agrees to […]
Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland and Robert Towne star in The Roger Corman Puerto Rico Trilogy: Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961), in which American crook Renzo Capetto (Carbone) decides to kill inept boat crew members and blame their deaths on […]
Director James Mangold’s excellent biographical drama is based on writer Susanna Kaysen’s account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the Sixties. It is a powerful, harrowing movie, along the lines of One […]
Russell Crowe and Christian Bale star in director James Mangold’s strong, gritty, film noir-style 2007 Western, a commendable remake of the 1957 3:10 to Yuma, based on Elmore Leonard’s short story . A well-cast Crowe and Bale give […]
Delmer Daves’s 1957 classic film 3:10 to Yuma is a suspenseful, masterly Fifties Western of the High Noon school, with Glenn Ford and Van Heflin ideally cast. Based on a 1953 short story by Elmore […]
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