Writer-director Tim Robbins’s bright and always relevant 1992 comedy drama election campaign political satire plays as a mockumentary, or fake documentary. It is his directorial debut, includes several original songs co-written and performed by him, […]
Director Norman Tokar’s 1970 children’s comedy The Boatniks stars Phil Silvers as wisecracking Harry Simmons, who leads a little gang of clumsily clodhopping jewel thieves (Norman Fell, Mickey Shaughnessy) who have reckoned without heroic young […]
Writer-director Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 German World War Two submarine thriller Das Boot [The Boat] is based on the novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim and was nominated for six Oscars, including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. […]
Three sisters try to reunite their estranged parents (Charles Winninger and Nella Walker) when their father wants to wed a trampy money-grabber in Universal’s thin but popular 1936 black and white drama Three Smart Girls, […]
‘Robert Louis Stevenson’s Great Adventure Story… Now a Monumental Motion Picture!’ Director Delbert Mann’s 1971 British-made adventure Kidnapped is the fourth big movie attempt at the Robert Louis Stevenson tale of adventure and romance – […]
‘SWASHBUCKLING ADVENTURE! FLASHING SWORDS AND RAGING SEAS… as soldiers of fortune fight for their lives!’ Writer-director Robert Stevenson’s 1960 British-made adventure Kidnapped is the Walt Disney version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale. It offers a […]
Director William Beaudine’s 1948 Lindsley Parsons Picture Corporation/ Monogram Pictures poverty row double feature film adventure Kidnapped is another antique American version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale, this time with Roddy McDowall as the boy […]
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