Director Maxwell Shane’s 1949 black and white film noir thriller City Across the River tells of postwar life in the slums of Brooklyn, where the young hoodlums of a local gang called The Amboy Dukes […]
‘Battle Cry of New York’s West Side Jungle!’ The 22-year-old John Saxon has the striking main role as Miguel Estrada, a Puerto Rican former convict tempted back to a life of crime, in debut director […]
Director Bruce Malmuth’s 1990 action crime thriller Hard to Kill stars Steven Seagal (from Above the Law [Nico]) and his iconic ponytail as LA Detective Mason Storm, who proves impossible to kill as he relentlessly pursues […]
‘If this happened to your daughter… would you be to blame?’ Director Muriel Box’s provocative and controversial 1960 British drama Too Young To Love is an intriguing dramatised account of the sad life of a […]
Bullshot: ‘Is this seemly, Mrs Platt-Higgins, playing popular music and your husband only ten years dead?’ Director Dick Clement’s silly 1983 British comedy Bullshot is a strained slapstick spoof of Bulldog Drummond, based on a play […]
Emily Brontë: ‘I spit on love and all its vanity’. Director André Techiné’s 1979 biographical costume drama Les Soeurs Brontë [The Brontë Sisters] stars a most formidable French acting talent line-up in Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle […]
‘PADEREWSKI in his only screen appearance’ When plane-crash survivors gather together in the home of a Swedish noblewoman, the Baroness Lindenborg (Marie Tempest), they are serenaded by famous classical pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski (as himself), whose […]
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