Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1944 black-and-white war drama Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is a careful version of the events surrounding the US bombing of Tokyo in 1942 in The Doolittle Raid, a secret bombing mission to […]
The 1985 British drama Wetherby is a typical piece from writer David Hare – dour, intelligent and enigmatic – with Vanessa Redgrave starring as Jean Travers, a spinster teacher interested in a weird chap (Tim […]
Cult director Allan Dwan’s 1952 black and white Western film Woman They Almost Lynched stars Joan Leslie as Sally Maris, a posh East Coast socialite who learns to shoot and becomes the target for scared […]
Film noir meets red scare… Director Robert Stevenson’s 1949 The Woman on Pier 13, a film noir crime drama that is otherwise known as I Married a Communist, is a forced, jingoistically patriotic propaganda piece about […]
Esteemed character actor Albert Dekker lands a rare star role as Bat Masterson… Director George Archainbaud’s 1943 The Woman of the Town stars Albert Dekker as the famous Western hero, gunslinger Bat Masterson, who has […]
The 1947 film The Woman on the Beach is a hothouse film noir romantic drama from Jean Renoir with a strange trio of characters embroiled in a love triangle – older blind artist Tod (Charles […]
John Cassavetes’s savage dissection of the American family, the brilliant 1974 drama film A Woman Under the Influence, stars his wife Gena Rowlands as a disintegrating housewife and mother. Writer-director John Cassavetes’s savage dissection of […]
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