Directors Ken Annakin and Harold French’s 1950 drama Trio is the second W Somerset Maugham anthology film (after Quartet, a hit in 1948), with three well cast, amusing and satisfyingly enjoyable yarns. The three short […]
Director Lewis Seiler’s 1940 Flight Angels offers good nostalgia for wartime flying, pre-war in America’s case, and these are the brisk, cheery stewardesses (Jane Wyman, Virginia Bruce) and capable, brave pilots (Dennis Morgan, Wayne Morris) […]
Director George Amy’s 1940 Warner Bros black and white crime drama Gambling on the High Seas is a short and snappy though not very sharp semi-thriller remaking the 1935 Bette Davis-George Brent vehicle Special Agent. […]
Writer-producer-director Robert Youngson’s 1970 97-minute cinema feature 4 Clowns [Four Clowns] is a tremendous silent-film comedy compilation with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy both together and in their days alone, Charley Chase on fine form […]
Director Don Sharp’s 1978 The Four Feathers is a reasonably enjoyable TV movie remake of the much-filmed A E W Mason tale about the British officer accused of cowardice who becomes a war hero in […]
The Four Feathers (1929) is Paramount Pictures’s final all-silent movie, though with a synchronised score (by William F Peters) and a few sound effects. This silent film with added synchronised sound but no dialogue is […]
Richard Fleischer’s gritty, pacy 1949 film noir crime thriller Trapped stars Lloyd Bridges as a criminal sprung from prison by the FBI to bust a counterfeit gang. Director Richard Fleischer’s gritty, pacy, atmospheric minor 1949 […]
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