Director J Lee Thompson’s 1979 The Passage is a poor, nasty and depressingly violent World War Two action adventure film, wasting the impressive talents of Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Lee, Patricia Neal, […]
Director James Dearden’s 1988 British period spy drama Pascali’s Island is based on the novel by Barry Unsworth and is a most satisfying tale of love and spies set on a Greek island just before […]
The 1957 colour remake The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a stiff museum piece of a film, but John Gielgud makes something of the grand role of poet Elizabeth Barrett’s tyrannical brute of a father. […]
MGM’s 1934 Victorian England romantic drama film The Barretts of Wimpole Street showcases a great barnstorming turn by Charles Laughton as poet Elizabeth Barrett’s tyrannical brute of a father, Edward Moulton-Barrett. Director Sidney Franklin’s MGM […]
Director Peter Glenville’s fiery 1962 drama of repressed love Summer and Smoke offers more Tennessee Williams Southern poetic passion, with Geraldine Page grabbing her chance to repeat her off-Broadway role as a hurt and fading […]
Alain Delon plays a peace-loving animator film-maker killed in an accident and involved in a supernatural game with Death (Daniel Emilfork), in director René Manzor’s bizarre 1986 French fantasy film Le Passage [The Passage]. The […]
Director Edmond T Gréville’s 1960 exploitation drama Beat Girl [Wild for Kicks] is a rare British teen picture from this late-50s, early 60s period, about a rebellious teenage girl (Gillian Hills) who resents her attractive, […]
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