Director Michael Curtiz’s 1937 movie is a top-of-the-class entry in Warner Bros’ Thirties boxing-movie cycle. Edward G Robinson gives a knockout turn as fight promoter Nick Donati, who turns a bellhop called Ward Guisenberry (Wayne […]
Director Phil Karlson’s 1962 movie Kid Galahad is the Elvis Presley musical remake of director Michael Curtiz’s famous 1937 prize-fighter movie Kid Galahad, in which Edward G Robinson gives a knockout turn as the promoter […]
‘The Story of a Cop Who Used His Wife as Bait for a Killer!’ Budd Boetticher’s underrated 1956 hide-and-seek film noir crime thriller The Killer Is Loose stars Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming and Wendell Corey […]
Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1954 war drama thriller The Caine Mutiny stars Humphrey Bogart as Captain Queeg of the United States Navy, a man so nervous to the point of being on the wrong side of […]
Director Edward Dmytryk’s worthy if superficial 1955 film was a prestige production but did not deserve or win any Oscars, or indeed any prizes. However, the intriguingly oddball script, Humphrey Bogart and the distinguished support […]
Writer-producer-director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1954 Oscar-winning drama stars Humphrey Bogart as film-maker Harry Dawes, who moulds shoeless gypsy flamenco dancer Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner) into a movie legend, after seeing her in a Madrid club. […]
Though then tragically dying of throat cancer at 57, Humphrey Bogart goes out in a blaze of glory in his final film The Harder They Fall, with this 1956 knockout exposé of the fight game, […]
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