Director Michael Curtiz’s plodding, flaccid 1958 film noir thriller The Man in the Net, adapted from Hugh Wheeler (writing as Patrick Quentin)’s 1956 novel Man in a Net, stars a rather past his prime Alan Ladd […]
Director Andrzej Wajda’s masterly 1978 investigation of Polish history takes the form of an inquiry conducted by an enthusiastic, dissident film-school graduate documentarist, Agnieszka (Krystyna Janda in her first role), into the life of a […]
Director Pietro Francisci’s 1960 Italian historical drama film Siege of Syracuse [L’Assedio di Siracusa] stars Rossano Brazzi, Tina Louise, Sylva Koscina, Enrico Maria Salerno, and Gino Cervi. It focuses on the Roman Siege of Syracuse […]
Director Steve Roberts’s 1980 British cult comedy film Sir Henry at Rawlinson End is based on the character created by Vivian Stanshall of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, and stars Trevor Howard as Sir Henry […]
MGM’s 1952 crime film noir The Sellout stars Walter Pidgeon as a big-city newspaper editor who digs the dirt on a corrupt small-town sheriff and finds his life threatened. Audrey Totter also stars notably as […]
The pleasingly played 1945 noir crime drama film Main Street after Dark stars Edward Arnold as Lieutenant Lorrigan, who takes a dim view of a criminal family of pickpockets (Selena Royle, Tom Trout, Audrey Totter). […]
The Green Glove (1952) script is by Charles Bennett. The whole stolen bejewelled gauntlet idea is a MacGuffin, which reminds us that Bennett is best known for his work with Alfred Hitchcock. Director Rudolph Maté’s […]
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