‘The most fascinating people the gods of chance ever swept up into high adventure!’ Director Joseph Pevney’s efficient 1960 melodrama The Crowded Sky is a busy all-star disaster movie, which is quite fun as hokum. […]
The 1959 American drama film The Big Circus stars Victor Mature as a circus owner battling financial trouble and a murderous saboteur. The colourful cast includes Vincent Price as the ringmaster, Peter Lorre as the clown, […]
Director Paul Landres’s game but pedestrian 1966 Sixties Paella Western film Son of a Gunfighter [El Hijo del Pistolero] stars Russ Tamblyn as Johnny Ketchum, the son of notorious gunfighter James ‘Ace’ Ketchum. It is […]
Rhonda Fleming called Mervyn LeRoy’s 1958 drama film Home Before Dark her favourite role, saying: ‘It was a marvellous stretch’. Jean Simmons, Dan O’Herlihy and Efrem Zimbalist Jr also star. It is written by Eileen […]
Director Harmon Jones’s 1958 Western film Bullwhip is a traditional Fifties-style comedic look at life on the range, with tepid handling, fumbling the admittedly tricky juggling act between action, humour and romance. To escape a […]
‘Can science go too far? Can it create life??’ Good question, MGM. In a story by Edmund Cooper, computer boffin Dr Tom Merrinoe (Philip Abbott)’s 10-year-old son Timmie (Richard Eyer) repairs and befriends Forbidden Planet’s […]
Director Stefan Schwartz’s 1992 comedy Soft Top Hard Shoulder is good middle-brow fun, in the Local Hero style, made with an eagle eye for laughs and arresting images. Peter Capaldi has done himself an enormous […]
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