Burt Lancaster stars in the 1974 murder mystery thriller The Midnight Man as Jim Slade, an ex-homicide-cop, released from jail after shooting his wife and lover, who becomes mixed up in a student girl’s murder […]
Silvio Narizzano’s 1984 three-episode TV mini-series Miss Marple: The Body in the Library stars Joan Hickson, who takes on her first case as the BBC’s Miss Marple in a UK TV series that filmed all […]
Director John Irvin’s 1979 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is the beautifully acted, meticulously organised TV version of the John le Carré novel about retired espionage agent George Smiley’s search for a mole at the heart of […]
British director John Irvin’s 1987 Hamburger Hill is a robust and vigorous Vietnam film that unfairly got rather lost in a year when they were in vogue. It is not as special as Full Metal […]
‘Their violence seared the West like a branding iron!’ Director Joseph H Lewis’s 1956 The Halliday Brand is a rousing flashback Western making the most of a somewhat clichéd script about a rancher father, Big […]
‘BUCK UP! LOOK UP! CHEER UP!… SING!’ Director Lewis Milestone’s 1933 Hallelujah I’m a Bum had to be urgently retitled Hallelujah I’m a Tramp in the UK, where it was released in a version where […]
Director Grigori Kozintsev’s 1964 world cinema masterpiece Hamlet is quite unlike any other version with a very cinematic vision shown by director Kozintsev, especially in his dramatic depiction of the towering castle of Elsinore and […]
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