The 1988 slapstick comedy film The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! stars the superbly droll Leslie Nielsen as crackpot cop Frank Drebin, who uncovers a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth II (impersonator […]
Airport is rightly considered by many to be the grandfather of the disaster movie genre as the precursor to later epic Seventies disaster films. In a dramatic 12 hours, the twin hazards of a severe […]
Director Mark Robson’s epic 1974 disaster movie is preposterously entertaining with the right manly main star in Charlton Heston (as construction engineer Stuart Graff), an ambitious, costly production, tedious personal dramas and excellent Oscar-winning visual […]
‘HER ARMS…HER LOVE…HIS ONLY ESCAPE FROM A HERITAGE OF HATE!’ Dane Clark stars as Danny Hawkins, the frustrated, tormented man who kills a bully from his childhood, Jerry Sykes (Lloyd Bridges), in director Frank Borzage’s […]
In director Julian Aymes’s sincere but rather glum and stagey 1956 British film, based on Max Catto’s novel, a retreating British National Service re-con patrol guards a lonely hill temple in Korea and clashes with the Chinese troops […]
Roll up, roll up for director David MacDonald’s British Technicolor action drama The Moonraker (1958), some tasty Fifties-style high adventure and low intrigue in 17th-century merry England, set in October 1651 after the Battle of […]
This ambitious and interesting but disappointing, Universal studio-butchered 1937 follow-up to All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) was planned by director James Whale and writer R C Sherriff as the definitive anti-war movie to cap […]
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