Little-known director Harold Daniels’s 1951 thriller Roadblock is a punchy Fifties B-movie crime drama re-heating the old film noir plot about an essentially good guy (Charles McGraw) tempted into crime by a greedy femme fatale […]
Director Howard Hawks’s impeccably made 1936 war drama The Road to Glory, based on the novel by Roland Dorgeles, follows a division of the French army as they struggle through the horrors of World War […]
Director Kevin Billington’s 1970 The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer stars Peter Cook, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Ronnie Corbett, Arthur Lowe, Denholm Elliott, Ronald Fraser and Vanessa Howard. A galaxy of funny British comedians […]
Despite the good cast, a useful premise and a bright screenplay by Elizabeth Jane Howard, director Cyril Frankel’s 1963 psychological thriller The Very Edge ends up as a mere borderline timepasser but still in the interesting […]
Writer-director George Armitage’s 1990 neo noir thriller Miami Blues stars Fred Ward as jaded Miami cop Sgt. Hoke Moseley, who is on the trail of extremely nasty ex-con Frederick J ‘Fred’ Frenger Jr (Alec Baldwin), […]
Director Charles Saunders’s 1956 tepid, short British B-movie comedy thriller Find the Lady is based on the story by Paul Erickson and Dermot Palmer about a gang of bank robbers (Mervyn Johns, Maurice Kaufmann, and […]
Sean Connery leads the all-star cast as astrophysicist Dr Paul Bradley, in director Ronald Neame’s sci-fi action thriller Meteor (1979), a late entry in the Seventies disaster movie stakes, about a meteor that strikes an asteroid […]
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