Ealing Studios’ 1943 British war film Undercover [Underground Guerrillas] stars John Clements, Mary Morris, Stephen Murray, Tom Walls, Michael Wilding, and a 15-year-old Stanley Baker. Its story is about a guerrilla movement in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia. […]
The 1953 British historical musical film The Beggar’s Opera is a big-screen adaptation in Technicolor of John Gay’s 1728 ballad opera. Directed by Peter Brook in his feature film debut, its stars Laurence Olivier in his sole musical. Laurence Olivier cuts a […]
The intimate 1968 British comedy-drama war film Before Winter Comes stars David Niven, Topol, Anna Karina, and John Hurt. Topol gets a well-deserved star vehicle – and his charm is the film’s main asset. Director […]
The quickly shot, low-budget 1955 sci-fi adventure film King Dinosaur is directed by Bert I Gordon in just seven days, in his directorial debut. It stars William Bryant and Wanda Curtis. It is shot with […]
Producer/ director Bert I Gordon’s enjoyable enough 1962 American adventure fantasy film The Magic Sword is loosely based on the medieval legend of Saint George and the Dragon, and stars Basil Rathbone, Estelle Winwood, Gary […]
The thoughtful and intelligent 2022 Israeli drama film Concerned Citizen stars Shlomi Bertonov and Ariel Wolf as a South Tel Aviv gay couple, whose contented, comfortable lives are thrown into meltdown and chaos by one […]
John Ford’s 1931 drama film Arrowsmith is based on Sinclair Lewis’s Nobel Prize novel, and stars Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes, Richard Bennett, and Myrna Loy. Allegedly, John Ford sped up filming at the expense of […]
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