Writer-director Leslie Megahey’s 1987 BBC2 TV film Cariani and the Courtesans stars Paul McGann, Lucy Hancock, Clive Merrison, Michael Gough, Diana Quick and Simon Callow. Charles Gray narrates an exquisitely shot tale of art and intrigue, […]
The 1985 film Twice in a Lifetime is an excellent drama about a 50-year-old married steel mill worker (Gene Hackman) who falls out with his wife (Ellen Burstyn}, falls into the arms of a barmaid […]
Director Earl McEvoy’s 1950 American Columbia Pictures black and white crime film noir Cargo to Capetown has a good star crew aboard with Broderick Crawford, Ellen Drew, John Ireland, Edgar Buchanan and Ted de Corsia. […]
The 1987 British TV film Scout is highly promising early work by Danny Boyle that clearly shows the way for the career that was to come, starring the late, much lamented Ray McAnally as a […]
Director Bernard Vorhaus’s 1947 American film noir Bury Me Dead is a preposterous, but very decently plotted and more than acceptably acted little mystery thriller, with a wealthy heroine called Barbara Carlin (June Lockhart), who understandably wants […]
Director Peter Smith’s 1987 mini-series A Perfect Spy finds Peter Egan starring as British MI6 spy Magnus Pym in the third and final part of the BBC’s classic dramatisation of John le Carré’s famous spy yarns. […]
The Perfect Specimen (1937) is Errol Flynn’s first comedy. Director Michael Curtiz’s 1937 comedy The Perfect Specimen is vintage-era screwball fun with Errol Flynn unexpectedly cast outside his comfort zone as Gerald Wicks, a wealthy […]
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