For his feature-length directorial debut, What’s Up, Tiger Lily? (1966), Woody Allen re-dubs director Senkichi Taniguchi’s Japanese action spy film International Secret Police: Key of Keys, (1965) and makes it into a comedy about the […]
Director/ co-writer Woody Allen’s 1971 political satire comedy Bananas is rough but ready for raising lots of laughs. Allen also stars as New York milksop consumer products tester Fielding Mellish, who runs off to San […]
Director Robert Ellis Miller’s 1980 buddy-buddy comedy crime drama The Baltimore Bullet boasts a good title, good stars and cast and a good director. The Baltimore Bullet is a rather likeable comic tale of a couple […]
Director Bo Widerberg’s 1971 Swedish historical biographical drama film The Ballad of Joe Hill [Joe Hill] stars Thommy Berggren as the legendary Swedish-American agitator Joe Hill. At the start-of-the-last-century, Joe Hill (Berggren), a Swedish immigrant […]
Edward James Olmos stars as Mexican-American farmer Gregorio Cortez, who kills a sheriff, evades capture and becomes a folk hero, in Robert M Young’s impressive, stirring 1982 Western film The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez. Director […]
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 […]
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