The sizzling 1983 film Under Fire is an absolutely thrilling, first-rate political action thriller about the Nicaragua conflict in 1979, with Gene Hackman and Nick Nolte at their best as compromised newsmen. Director Roger Spottiswoode’s […]
The urgent and timely 1993 American TV docudrama film And the Band Played On is directed by Roger Spottiswoode, who turns Randy Shilts’s controversial book about how and why the AIDS crisis happened into a […]
Director Lamont Johnson’s 1972 American made-for-TV drama film That Certain Summer, written by Richard Levinson and William Link, is a pioneer as the first to deal sympathetically with homosexuality. As well as being a historic […]
Director Alfred E Green’s well above just run-of-the-range 1941 Universal Pictures black and white Western film Badlands of Dakota stars Robert Stack, Broderick Crawford, Ann Rutherford, Richard Dix and Frances Farmer. Stack plays wastrel Jim Holliday, […]
Director Kurt Neumann’s 1949 robust, enjoyable black and white action adventure crime Western film Badmen of Tombstone from King Brothers Productions stars Broderick Crawford, Barry Sullivan and Marjorie Reynolds, and is based on the novel […]
The cast suggests a lighthearted Western, but director Andrew V McLaglen’s 1968 Bandolero! is actually a showcase for tough fisticuffs and violent shootouts, as well as a showcase for its stars James Stewart, Dean Martin, […]
Director Richard Fleischer’s handsome, action-filled 1916 Mexican revolutionary adventure film Bandido! (1956 ) stars Robert Mitchum as arms trader Wilson, who supplies weapons to rebel colonel José Escobar (Roland) and outsmarts rival gunrunner Kennedy (Zachary Scott). […]
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