Director Max Ophüls’s 1952 black and white French comedy-drama anthology film Le Plaisir [House of Pleasure] is his delightful adaptation of three short stories by Guy de Maupassant linked by the theme of pleasure. It […]
Director Gillies Mackinnon’s 1991 BBC TV Screen Two film The Grass Arena stars Mark Rylance, who gives a compelling performance in a gritty true-life story about a man whose hopes of a boxing career are […]
Director Gillies Mackinnon’s 1992 Irish film The Playboys stars Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, Robin Wright and Milo O’Shea. Police sergeant Brendan Hegarty (Finney) and travelling actor Tom (Quinn) fight for the hand of young unmarried mother Tara […]
Director Robert Stevenson’s 1965 comedy film The Monkey’s Uncle is Walt Disney Productions’ slightly less amusing sequel to their surprise hit The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964) and finds Tommy Kirk back as ‘scrambled egghead’ student […]
Director Robert Stevenson’s 1964 hit American science-fiction comedy film The Misadventures of Merlin Jones is Walt Disney Productions’ better prequel to The Monkey’s Uncle (made the following year). Tommy Kirk is pleasing as the Midvale […]
Former Disney star Tommy Kirk stars in his first film for American International Pictures with Annette Funicello in the gleefully preposterous 1964 beach party film Pajama Party, the fourth in a series of seven beach […]
Fred MacMurray stars with Tommy Kirk in director James Neilson’s 1962 Disney family comedy Bon Voyage!, as American father and son with other family members played by Jane Wyman, Deborah Walley, and Kevin Corcoran as […]
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