Director Josef von Sternberg’s richly enjoyable 1932 romantic adventure again stars his protégée Marlene Dietrich, who appears on her finest form as a notorious ‘lady of the sleeping cars’, Shanghai Lil. The infamously loose woman […]
Leslie Howard enjoys himself enormously as both foppish Sir Percy Blakeney and a brave French Revolution vigilante, in the high-spirited 1935 British adventure movie The Scarlet Pimpernel. ‘They seek him here. They seek him there. […]
Director Roland Joffe’s 1995 drama stars Demi Moore as Hester Prynne, the mother of an illegitimate child in 17th-century Puritan-ruled New England. Gary Oldman also stars as the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, the preacher. Refusing to […]
Marlene Dietrich is truly magnificent in Josef von Sternberg’s 1934 film The Scarlet Empress, a spectacular, visually thrilling historical romantic biopic. Marlene Dietrich is truly magnificent in the 1934 film The Scarlet Empress, producer-director Josef […]
The 1975 mystery thriller film The Drowning Pool stars Paul Newman, reprising his role as Ross MacDonald’s cynical private eye Lew Harper in the sequel to his 1966 hit Harper [The Moving Target]. Director Stuart […]
Director Jesús Franco’s crime thriller horror movie is the fifth and concluding chapter in Christopher Lee’s Fu Manchu cycle of movies. Series regulars Howard Marion-Crawford (as scientist Doctor Petrie) and Tsai Chin (as Fu’s daughter Lin […]
Director Jesús Franco’s rather tedious and shoddily made 1969 fourth and penultimate Christopher Lee appearance as Asian super-villain Fu Manchu nevertheless has its brashly eye-catching moments. Series regulars Howard Marion-Crawford and Tsai Chin (as Lin […]
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