‘Mother of God: I’ve killed a nun!’ Catholic nuns hide refugee Jewish children from the Nazis in World War Two wartime northern Italy, then risk their lives to help them escape to Palestine, in the […]
The 1992 mystery crime drama Consenting Adults is a disastrous, preposterous film noir thriller from Alan J Pakula (trying to follow up Presumed Innocent) in which Priscilla Parker (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio)’s husband Richard (Kevin Kline) falls […]
Alan Ladd stars in ‘an adventure which cowards quit early and weaklings never finish at all!’ Director John Farrow’s 1948 black and white Paramount Pictures drama Beyond Glory stars Alan Ladd as Captain Rockwell ‘Rocky’ Gilman, […]
Writer-director Blake Edwards’s 1971 Western film Wild Rovers stars old-timer William Holden from The Wild Bunch and Ryan O’Neal fresh from Love Story as two likeable cowboy ruffians, Ross Bodine and Frank Post, cowhands on […]
Director Tay Garnett’s 1947 black and white Paramount drama Wild Harvest is based on a story by Houston Branch, with a screenplay by John Monks Jr, and stars Alan Ladd, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston and […]
Director William Wellman’s 1951 Western film Westward the Women stars a dour-seeming Robert Taylor as the man responsible for conducting a wagon-train of ladies (Denise Darcel, Marilyn Erskine, Hope Emerson, Lenore Lonergan and Julie Bishop) […]
Director Albert Zugsmith’s 1962 black and white mystery crime drama Confessions of an Opium Eater [Evils of Chinatown] stars Vincent Price, who gets to go over the top again as 19th-century adventurer Gilbert De Quincey, […]
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