Director Waris Hussein’s 1971 The Possession of Joel Delaney stars Shirley MacLaine in a hokey but entertaining British-financed chiller, set in New York City, where she plays divorced mother-of-two socialite Norah Benson, pursuing her younger […]
Director Mike Nichols’s 1990 celebrity memoirs movie Postcards from the Edge finds Shirley MacLaine bravely playing an ageing, drinking, domineering Mommie Dearest-type star named Doris Mann and Meryl Streep playing her drug-abusing actress daughter, Suzanne […]
Director George Marshall’s 1941 screwball comedy Pot o’ Gold [The Golden Hour] has the distinction of featuring James Stewart on the mouth-organ and performing ‘When Johnny Toots His Horn’ (written by Hy Heath and Fred Rose), which may […]
MGM’s entertaining 1935 romantic crime drama Whipsaw stars Myrna Loy as a jewel thief and Spencer Tracy as a government agent hot on her trail. Director Sam Wood’s 1935 romantic crime drama Whipsaw stars Myrna […]
This time director Hy Averback’s 1984 updated sex comedy Where the Boys Are finds Lisa Hartman, Lorna Luft, Wendy Schaal and Lynn-Holly Johnson as the four college coeds heading for Florida’s Fort Lauderdale for their […]
Writer-producer-director Larry Cohen’s 1977 biographical drama The Private Files of J Edgar Hoover stars a notable cast headed by Broderick Crawford, José Ferrer, Michael Parks, Ronee Blakley, Rip Torn, Celeste Holm and Dan Dailey. He […]
The 1975 action adventure film Sharks’ Treasure tells an antique-style sunken treasure yarn that is given an odd twist by its writer-star-producer-director Cornel Wilde, who sermonises against tobacco and drink (‘every ounce of alcohol you […]
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