Producer-director Cornel Wilde’s 1967 war movie Beach Red stars Cornel Wilde as Captain MacDonald, the film’s narrator, and Rip Torn as the none too well named Sergeant Honeywell (‘That’s what we’re here for. To kill. […]
Director Paul Wendkos’s 1967 Attack on the Iron Coast stars Lloyd Bridges, who leads a cheaply-made, run-of-the-mill, British-made World War Two wartime action thriller as a Canadian commando called Major Jamie Wilson commanding a suicidal […]
Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 novel The Dain Curse is adapted into an enjoyable CBS television miniseries in 1978 by director E W Swackhamer and producer Martin Poll, and stars James Coburn as the nameless private detective […]
Director Michael Elliott’s 1983 TV movie King Lear stars Laurence Olivier in his last great gasp as the Shakespearean royal father, more sinned against than sinning, a role he was so desperate to record that […]
Writer-director Jean-Luc Godard claimed that the making of his 1987 film King Lear inspired him so much that he finally really wanted to read the play. So it comes as no surprise that his interpretation […]
Director Grigoriy Kozintsev’s 1970 Russian film King Lear [Korol Lir] stars Jüri Järvet as a modest, one-note (bad-tempered) Lear leading a number of unstriking performances in this disappointment from the director of the great Russian […]
The 1956 film noir crime drama Julie stars Doris Day, Louis Jourdan and Barry Sullivan. It was nominated for two Oscars: Best Screenplay and Best Song. Writer-director Andrew L Stone’s 1956 black and white film […]
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