Stanley Kubrick’s short second feature film from 1955 is only 67 minutes long, but Killer’s Kiss provides plenty of evidence of the budding director’s talent. A punchy, stylish, inventively made, film noir action thriller, it […]
Stanley Kubrick’s exhilarating youthful 1956 masterpiece – his third feature made when he was 28 – is a taut, fast-paced, atmospheric B-movie noir thriller. It gets top mileage from its carefully delineated characters of hoods […]
The 1964 film version of Tennessee Williams’s play The Night of the Iguana is beautifully handled by director John Huston, with the dream cast of Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr and Sue Lyon giving […]
‘This morning we were married, and now you think I’m going to kiss you, hold you, call you my wife!’ – Robert Mitchum. With a beautifully crafted, literate screenplay by James Agee based on the […]
In his only film as sole director, Burt Lancaster also stars in this enjoyable 1955 Western, made for his company Hecht-Hill- Lancaster, with his producer partners Harold Hecht and James Hill. Sadly it had an […]
Jean Gabin and Michèle Morgan unforgettably play out their passion-driven fate as doomed lovers in the poetically grungy, smoky and despairing urban settings of a pre-war Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, northern France. […]
French maestro Marcel Carné’s 1939 masterwork is a moody, atmospheric, haunting romantic thriller. Jean Gabin stars as a nice ordinary factory worker Francois, who is holed up and barricaded in the furnished room of his garret, cornered […]
Susbscribe to our awesome Blog Feed or Comments Feed