Director Gregory Ratoff’s 1941 black and white Columbia Pictures family saga film Adam Had Four Sons is a classy romantic melodrama that switches from humour to tears, and from seduction to betrayal within moments. Warner […]
Director Anthony Mann’s 1953 shrimpers versus oilmen adventure drama Thunder Bay stars James Stewart, Joanne Dru, Dan Duryea, Gilbert Roland and Jay C Flippen. When oil-drilling engineer Steve Martin (Stewart) believes that oil lies under the […]
‘Strange Emotions Stir the Pulse… when LOVE and PASSION clash in the world’s loneliest outpost!’ David Charleston (Michael Redgrave): ‘For all humanity I make one wish: let the people die off fast.’ Director Roy Boulting’s […]
Director Richard Thorpe’s 1945 MGM Technicolor musical Thrill of a Romance pairs Esther Williams with Van Johnson, made at their post-war career peak, with musical performances by Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra and opera singer Lauritz Melchior. […]
Director Robert Stevenson’s 1960 black and white comedy The Absent Minded Professor is good, old-style fun for kids and their parents, and stars Fred MacMurray as a daffy college professor called Professor Ned Brainard who […]
Director Berthold Viertel’s 1936 British black and white biopic Rhodes of Africa [Rhodes] is a portrait of Cecil Rhodes, diamond and gold miner, British Empire builder and the father of Rhodesia, made at the time […]
Director George Cukor’s last film (at the age of 82) is the 1981 American drama Rich and Famous, an amusing, involving remake of 1943’s Old Acquaintance, with Jacqueline Bisset as sulky Liz Hamilton and Candice […]
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