Director John Paddy Carstairs’s 1949 British black and white wedding comedy Fools Rush In stars Sally Ann Howes, Guy Rolfe and Nora Swinburne. Sally Ann Howes is the angel who fears to tread on the day […]
The 1952 Face to Face is an unusual, interesting, though not wholly satisfactory black and white double bill movie feature, sometimes screened separately as two short films, but when shown together billed as a Duo […]
For the 1954 black and white crime thriller Face the Music [The Black Glove], Hammer Films brought US action star Alex Nicol over to Britain to play a trumpeter who has to show he wasn’t […]
Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal give perhaps the best performances of their careers in producer-director Elia Kazan’s memorable protest movie about the manipulation of the public by the media, the 1957 black and white drama […]
Director Sergio Sollima’s 1967 Italian film Face to Face [Faccia a Faccia] stars Gian Maria Volontè, Tomas Milian and William Berger. The BBC’s Moviedrome show rescued this extremely interesting Sixties widescreen spaghetti Western from its […]
Writer-producer-director Lina Wertmuller’s very extreme, disturbing and bizarre tale of sadomasochism, the 1975 Italian film Seven Beauties [Pasqualino Settebellezze], focuses on the life of an Italian crook and lothario called Pasqualino or Pasquale Frafuso (the […]
Writer-producer-director Ingmar Bergman deals with his own angst about failing relationships in the 1976 Swedish drama Face to Face [Ansikte mot ansikte], one of two TV movies/films he made at around this time (the other […]
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