Writer-director Peter Greenaway’s extremely dark 1988 comedy drama Drowning by Numbers – about a coroner (Bernard Hill) and his relationships with three generations of women all named Cissie Colpitts (Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson and Joely […]
John Boles cuts a dash as the Red Shadow (aka Pierre Birbeau) in director Roy Del Ruth’s rather beautiful if perhaps shakily scripted and filmed 1929 Warner Bros (as The Vitaphone Corporation) innovative first version […]
Can you imagine Rosalind Russell as a judge or a sculptor? Well, here in director Norman Taurog’s airily funny 1941 MGM black and white comedy Design for Scandal, she plays both, paired as Cornelia Porter […]
Director Burt Kennedy’s 1970 Italian/ Yugoslav/ US co-production The Deserter [La Spina Dorsale del Diavolo] [The Devil’s Backbone] [Ride to Glory] is a violent Spaghetti Western with the usual revenge tale – cavalryman hunts the […]
In a very near future society, culture has died. The Designated Mourner stars Mike Nichols and Miranda Richardson as husband and wife Jack and Judy, and David de Keyser as Judy’s father Howard, living in a […]
Director Lesley Selander’s 1955 programmer French Foreign Legion adventure film Desert Sands is produced by Bel-Air Productions and released by United Artists. It is foolish but nevertheless some fun as it is quite quirky and […]
‘A RECKLESS LEGEND OF THE FOREIGN LEGION!’ Director Joseph Pevney’s 1953 Universal International Pictures French Foreign Legion Technicolor adventure Desert Legion stars Alan Ladd, Richard Conte, Arlene Dahl and Akim Tamiroff, and is entertaining, easy-going, […]
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