Director Stuart Walker’s 1935 Universal studios black and white film Mystery of Edwin Drood is a pleasing, atmospheric, satisfying Victorian England period chiller, successfully based on Charles Dickens’s uncompleted 1870 novel, with Claude Rains enjoying a […]
Writer-director Timothy Forder’s 1993 British film The Mystery of Edwin Drood stars Robert Powell, who is ideally cast but strangely subdued – exactly the wrong mode for this Grand Guignol mystery thriller – as Jasper […]
‘The Laugh-O-Meter Is On!’ ‘He gets more than his fare share!’ Director Stanley A Long’s 1976 British sex comedy Adventures of a Taxi Driver is the first of three fairly dismal and turgid Seventies Brit […]
Director Josef von Báky’s 1943 Agfacolor comedy fantasy adventure Münchhausen [The Adventures of Baron Munchausen] [Baron Münchhausen] is the costly, sweeping and handsome-looking German film version of the Gottfried August Bürger novel about the infamous […]
Writer-director Frank D Gilroy’s 1976 From Noon Till Three stars Charles Bronson, who admirably tries to stretch himself by extending his range in this offbeat adult comedy Western satire that tackles the Western myth by […]
Writer-producer-director Ingmar Bergman’s 1980 From the Life of the Marionettes [Aus Dem Leben Der Marionetten] is a late, German-made Bergman cinema and TV film about a businessman Peter Egermann (Robert Atzorn) who strangles a prostitute […]
Director Ted Tetzlaff’s 1950 gangster film noir Gambling House is a rather strange and awkward mix of crime drama and social drama, and stars Victor Mature as Marc Fury, a foreign (Italian) gambler-cum-crook who faces […]
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