‘Sensational! Eerie! Sinister! Weird! The most unusual picture of the year!’ Director Milton Rosmer’s cheaply-produced, enjoyable 1935 horror crime thriller Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn stars Tod Slaughter, who is in […]
‘Eight men and a woman… one betrayed the man Marie-Octobre really loved.’ Director Julien Duvivier’s 1959 black and white French drama Marie-Octobre [Secret Meeting] stars Danielle Darrieux, who is superb as Marie-Octobre in this gripping […]
Sandra Dorne stars as the super seductive Marilyn, a garage owner’s young wife, lusted after by a brooding drifter mechanic (Maxwell Reed), in the 1953 noir crime drama Roadhouse Girl [Marilyn]. ‘NO ESCAPE… from this […]
Director Reginald Le Borg’s 1944 Universal Pictures black and white noir-style crime drama Destiny has a most curious history. It was excised from the final print of another film and then expanded into more than double […]
Director Wolf Rilla’s drama 1957 The Scamp [Strange Affection] is an appealing small-time drama, with Richard Attenborough as kindly school teacher Stephen Leigh, who befriends the eponymous wild character Tod, played by 11-year-old child star Colin […]
Director John Korty’s triumphant 1974 TV movie The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, based on the novel by Ernest J Gaines, is classic television. Cicely Tyson stars in the lead role as Jane Pittman, along […]
Director Sergio Corbucci’s 1970 Technicolor and Techniscope spaghetti Western film Compañeros [Vamos a matar compañeros] stars Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Jack Palance and Fernando Rey. It is one of Corbucci’s esteemed and much admired classics, […]
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