Director R G Springsteen’s dully conventional, but action-packed and busily plotted Audie Murphy 1963 Western film Showdown comes from towards the end of the war hero star’s considerable movie career. Ric Hardman [Bronson Howitzer]’s screenplay […]
The 1956 Western film Showdown at Abilene provides a fair level of entertainment, in which presumed dead Civil War soldier Jim Trask (Jock Mahoney) comes home to Abilene, Kansas, where he had been sheriff, to […]
The 1967 Western film Gunfight in Abilene stars Bobby Darin in a non-singing role as brave Rebel soldier Cal Wayne, and features Michael Sarrazin in his film début as a guileless tenderfoot. Director William Hale’s […]
Director Steve Barron’s 1993 sci-fi spoof Coneheads stars an impressive line-up in Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke, Laraine Newman, Phil Hartman, Dave Thomas, Michael McKean, Jason Alexander, Lisa Jane Persky, Adam Sandler, Sinbad, Jan […]
Peter Cushing stars away from his usual horror territory as a pompous pilot called Captain Judd in director Charles Frend’s intriguing if slackly paced 1960 mystery drama Cone of Silence [Trouble in the Sky], based […]
Jean Gabin plays Albert Quentin, an elderly boozer trying to forget an old flame, and Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Gabriel Fouquet, a young drunkard visiting his young daughter, who hit the bottle together in a Normandy […]
Burt Lancaster stars as recently appointed FBI agent Steve Buchanan who teams with attractive UN secretary–translator Ann Winslow (Dorothy McGuire) to investigate aged New Yorker William ‘Skipper’ Miller, aka fake-dollar-bill fraudster Mister 880 (Edmund Gwenn), […]
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