Director Jerry Schatzberg’s 1971 searing downer of movie about the heroin addicts who frequent ‘Needle Park’ stars the up-coming Al Pacino in his second film, just before he hit it big with The Godfather. A downbeat but […]
Director Douglas Sirk’s 1952 comedy features an irresistible star turn by wily performer Charles Coburn as Samuel Fulton, an old millionaire who tests the family of a woman, Harriet Blasidell (Lynn Bari), he once loved […]
In an admirable, convincing star turn mixing easy, effortless athleticism with thoughtful intelligence, Joseph Fiennes is excellent as Clavius, a powerful Roman Military Tribune who witnesses the agonising crucifixion of the Christ, Yeshua (Cliff Curtis). […]
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis are up to their old tricks, this time in navy larks as sailors in a submarine, in director Hal Walker’s 1952 remake of a 1942 Dorothy Lamour-William Holden musical The […]
Gene Evans stars as Sergeant Zack, with Robert Hutton as Private Bronte, Steve Brodie as Lieutenant Driscoll and James Edwards as Corporal Thompson, in writer-director Samuel Fuller’s riveting Korean War action drama. It is notable as the first Korean War […]
Cult favourite writer-director Samuel Fuller delivers a tough, rough and robust Korean War action thriller, starting with his intelligent, thoughtful screenplay telling the story of a separated platoon of weary American infantrymen. It is set in 1950 during […]
Director C Pennington Richards’s lively but undistinguished 1967 British version of the Sherwood Forest legend was made for Hammer Films, which had already filmed Sword of Sherwood Forest in 1960 with a different cast. This […]
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