Director George Marshall’s 1941 Western film Texas stars William Holden, Glenn Ford and Claire Trevor, its action intercut with a love triangle romance. The almost unrecognisably young and handsome Holden and Ford make their mark […]
Director James Hogan’s 1938 film The Texans is a faded but impressively big-scale Western with vigorous handling and feisty turns from a reliable cast. As Texas sorts itself out after the US Civil War, what […]
Director John Cromwell’s primitive but interesting 1930 early talkie Western film The Texan stars Gary Cooper as a bandit called the Llano Kid who meets con man Thacker (Oscar Apfel), who persuades him to pretend […]
Porducer-director Anthony Kimmins’s 1958 Australian comedy drama Smiley Gets a Gun is the sequel to his Smiley (1956), in which Smiley Greevins, now played by Keith Calvert, must keep out of trouble at school, help […]
Writer-director Alexander Ramati’s 1985 The Assisi Underground is a well-meaning, costly, but largely ineptly told wartime adventure about Catholic monks in Assisi (Perugia, Umbria, Italy) hiding Italian Jewish refugees from the Nazis in 1943 and […]
Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s 1984 British television film Dr Fischer of Geneva stars James Mason, Alan Bates and Greta Scacchi. Graham Greene’s lukewarm novella proves ideal material for a TV movie, at least this TV movie, […]
Eric Roberts and Christopher Penn star as Alex Grady and Travis Brickley, who lead the five-strong American karate team chosen by Frank Couzo (James Earl Jones) to fight against Korea in a Tae Kwon Do […]
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