Director Norman Taurog’s 1960 musical G I Blues is an effective tailor-made show for Elvis Presley, then just back in movies after service in the US Army as the most publicised American soldier since General […]
Producer-director John Sturges’s memorable 1960 Western is deservedly greatly admired and much loved. It stars Yul Brynner in one of his best and most famous roles as the honourable and steadfast gunfighter Chris Adams, who recruits […]
Elvis Presley stars as a self-centred but good-hearted bad boy called Vince Everett, the epitome of troubled youth, in the 1957 teen musical film Jailhouse Rock. It caused a scandal because Elvis plays a bad […]
Sam Peckinpah’s 1972 action crime thriller The Getaway is one of this great director’s greatest movies, and most successful. Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw star as jailed bank robber ‘Doc’ McCoy and his loyal wife […]
Director Stephen Frears’s hardboiled 1990 thriller takes no prisoners and does 100 per cent justice to its rightly revered source author Jim Thompson. It finds Anjelica Huston on scalding form as Lilly Dillon, a small-time […]
Based on the 1940 Broadway stage hit play by Elmer Blaney Harris, director Jean Negulesco’s 1948 tearjerker was controversial in its day and now is still touching, sensitive and extremely enjoyable. Jane Wyman won the Best […]
Maxine Peake (The Village, Silk, The Hollow Crown) stars as Charlotte, a career-obsessed workaholic whose world suddenly crashes when she quits her high-flying London media agency job after being betrayed in the boardroom and passed over […]
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