Jerry Lewis tries to do a Kind Hearts and Coronets, giving himself seven parts in the 1965 comedy The Family Jewels, a film he directs and has co-written (with Bill Richmond) about a 10-year-old heiress […]
Director Ken Loach’s extremely skilled and acute, if depressing 1971 British drama Family Life is the film version of David Mercer’s TV play In Two Minds about a 19-year old London girl (Sandy Ratcliff) driven […]
The 74-year-old Charles Bronson stars as old cop Paul Fein in director Ted Kotcheff’s 1995 Family of Cops, the first of a series of three highly competent TV movie crime thrillers. A well cast Bronson […]
Van: ‘I’ve been feeling kinda weird lately.’ Writer-director Atom Egoyan shows his unusual talent and cleverness in the 1987 Canadian drama Family Viewing, a surreal study of a disunited, TV obsessed family, in which a […]
Ida Lupino’s first credited co-writing and directing enterprise Outrage (1950) is a worthy, earnest tale of a raped woman called Ann Walton (Mala Powers) who understandably heads for a nervous breakdown after her terrible experience. […]
‘They Holed Up In Hell!’ Director John Brahm’s 1955 adventure Bengazi is low-budget adventure crime drama malarkey, based on a story by Jeff Bailey, in which a murky international trio (Richard Conte, Victor McLaglen and Richard […]
‘From marble palace to teeming jungle all India rocked with the violence of the great rebellion!’ Director Laslo Benedek’s 1954 Bengal Brigade [Bengal Rifles] stars Rock Hudson, who struggles against his unwise casting in a […]
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