René Clair’s famous classic French avant-garde comedy short film (his second work as director, made at the age 26), designed to be screened in the middle of the acts (entr’acte) of a Dadaist ballet called […]
Writer-director Terry Jones’s soft and silly 1989 British comedy fantasy film Erik the Viking stars Tim Robbins, Mickey Rooney, Eartha Kitt, Terry Jones, Imogen Stubbs, and John Cleese. Ex-Python Jones’s daft Norse saga is more […]
The watchable if only moderate Lippert Pictures low-budget 1953 adventure thriller film Escape Route [I’ll Get You] stars George Raft as an FBI undercover agent on the trail of a band of spies. ‘DYNAMITE STORY […]
The humble, routine 1955 Technicolor adventure romance drama film Escape to Burma gets a lift from its stars Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan and David Farrar. Director Allan Dwan’s fairly humble and routine 1955 American Technicolor […]
The moderately successful if dour 1953 British crime thriller film Escape by Night stars Sid James as Gino Rossi, an Italian sex-racket crime boss on the run. Writer-director John Gilling’s 1953 British black and white […]
The fast-moving 1952 crime film noir Loan Shark stars George Raft as a recently released jailbird who avenges his brother-in-law’s death and sorts out some vicious money-lending sharks by infiltrating loan rackets. Director Seymour Friedman’s 1952 Lippert […]
Charles Jarrott’s Canadian 1982 film The Amateur. The 1982 film The Amateur stars John Savage, Christopher Plummer and Marthe Keller. The classy cast works hard but is largely at a loss in this muddled spy […]
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