Director David Miller’s 1963 film Captain Newman, MD is a hit pre-M*A*S*H war comedy-drama for Gregory Peck, who is stiff as a board as Captain Josiah Newman, MD, a World War Two US Army psychiatrist, […]
‘Love Nesters! Shock Slayers! Sensation Seekers!’… Director Phil Karlson’s excellent 1952 black and white film noir crime thriller Scandal Sheet [The Dark Page] stars John Derek and Donna Reed as New York hot-shot reporters who […]
The 1989 drama Scandal is a major British film about the 1963 Profumo sex, spies and politics scandal, with superb performances by John Hurt as bon-viveur osteopath Dr Stephen Ward and Joanne Whalley as exotic […]
Joss Ackland recalled: ”Then there was Passion of Mind in 2000 with Demi Moore. Terrible script. Awful, actually. But I needed the money.’ And he called Moore ‘alright, but not very bright or talented’. Director […]
Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s landmark 1928 French black and white silent historical film The Passion of Joan of Arc, depicting her trial and execution, had a bumpy ride to the screen, and was a […]
Director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s second sound film, the 1943 black and white Danish drama Day of Wrath [Vredens Dag], is a formally constructed tableau (with images based on 17th-century Dutch paintings) studying suspicion, witchcraft, a […]
Director Don Medford’s nasty-toned, hard-to-like 1971 British Western The Hunting Party stars Gene Hackman as the rich and ruthless rancher Brandt Ruger, whose beautiful young wife Melissa (Candice Bergen) is kidnapped by the infamous outlaw […]
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