The 1958 American black and white drama film The Goddess stars Kim Stanley, who is wonderful in her film debut in writer Paddy Chayefsky’s powerful indictment of the Hollywood star system, loosely based on the […]
Basil Dearden’s well-meaning and sincere 1962 British drama Life for Ruth helped caused the demise of the notable Allied Film Makers company. Director Basil Dearden’s well-meaning and sincere 1962 British drama Life for Ruth [Walk […]
Writer-director Jason Miller’s 1982 drama That Championship Season stars a grand line-up in Bruce Dern, Stacy Keach, Robert Mitchum, Martin Sheen and Paul Sorvino. It is an impressive and touching, though theatrical and flat film […]
The 1970 film There Was a Crooked Man… is an agreeable, underrated black comedy Western, with Henry Fonda as a lawman-turned-warden dogging an outlaw (Kirk Douglas), who has broken out of jail to find his […]
Director Lawrence Huntington’s 1952 British black and white film There Was a Young Lady stars Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray, along with Bill Owen, Sydney Tafler and Geraldine McEwan. Denison plays David Walsh, a gem […]
Director Stuart Burge’s splendid 1963 British film Uncle Vanya is a rousing, impeccably acted adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s 1899 classic play. It is a filmed version of the Chichester Festival production, directed by and starring […]
Director David Giles’s 1969 drama The Dance of Death is a welcome film of the British National Theatre production of August Strindberg’s downbeat play Dödsdansen, with Laurence Olivier outstanding as the sick and malevolent artillery […]
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