Director Gavin Millar’s 1987 TV movie Scoop is a much-heralded, £2.5 million London Weekend Television (LWT) production of Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant, mischievous Fleet Street satire, adapted by William Boyd, about nature columnist William Boot (Michael […]
The young Gary Cooper’s career was boosted when he starred in producer and director Richard Wallace’s 1930 all-talking drama film Seven Days Leave, the early-sound version of J M Barrie’s 1917 play The Old Lady […]
Director Tim Whelan’s 1942 RKO Radio Pictures black and white romantic musical comedy Seven Days’ Leave stars the irresistible combination of Lucille Ball and Victor Mature (borrowed from 20th Century-Fox). Wartime GI soldier Johnny Grey […]
Director Richard Thorpe’s 1952 black and white biographical crime drama Carbine Williams stars James Stewart, who is effectively cast as David ‘Marsh’ Marshall Williams, an embittered jailed bootlegger, who, in the jail tool-shop, invents a new gun […]
David Birney stars with Charlotte Rampling and Michael Lonsdale in the 1974 British-French action film Caravan to Vaccarès, based on the novel by Alistair MacLean. ‘The Guns of Navarone – Where Eagles Dare – When […]
Director James Fargo’s 1978 Iran/ US co-production action adventure movie Caravans is set in 1948 in a fictional country called Zakharstan and stars Michael Sarrazin as a young American Embassy employee Mark Miller (Michael Sarazyn) tasked […]
‘I lost my job, my house, my Rolls Royce, my family left me… what else can possibly go wrong?’ ‘Hi, Dad!’ Director Michael Schultz’s 1981 comedy drama Carbon Copy stars George Segal as straight-laced, rich, […]
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