Sam Peckinpah’s 1970 The Ballad of Cable Hogue is an entertaining lighter-hearted Western from the director of The Wild Bunch, in which prospector Cable Hogue (Jason Robards) sets out for revenge on the bad guys […]
Director Jeremy Paul Kagan’s 2001 TV movie The Ballad of Lucy Whipple is a superior, pacy, gripping adventure about a mom, Arvella Whipple (Glenn Close), and her three children heading West after the death of […]
Writer-director Lionel Jeffries’s 1972 family mystery fantasy film The Amazing Mr Blunden is a charming adaptation of Antonia Barber’s much loved novel The Ghosts, painstakingly directed by the evergreen Jeffries (The Railway Children). Two 1918 Camden […]
Director Andrew V McLaglen’s 1967 Technicolor film The Ballad of Josie is an amiable girl-power Western comedy, with Doris Day enjoying herself as the widow Josie Minick, who accidentally kills her drunken husband with a […]
Writer-director Daniel Petrie’s Canadian 1984 coming-of-age drama/ thriller The Bay Boy [Un Printemps Sous La Neige] stars Liv Ullmann, Kiefer Sutherland and Peter Donat. Life is nasty and brutish for 16-year old Donald Campbell (Sutherland) […]
Director Lionel Jeffries’s sympathetic 1975 British drama Baxter! stars Patricia Neal as speech therapist Dr Clemm, who tries to solve the problems of disturbed, speech-afflicted 12-year-old Roger Baxter (Scott Jacoby), upset after his parents’ breakup. The […]
Director Albert Band’s 1987 film Ghoulies II stars Damon Martin as Larry, Royal Dano as Uncle Ned and Phil Fondacaro as Sir Nigel Penneyweight, and is based on the characters created by Luca Bercovici and […]
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