Director Henri Decoin’s 1942 thriller Les Inconnus dans la Maison [Strangers in the House] is based on a novel by Georges Simenon, with a screenplay by Henri-Georges Clouzot, and stars Raimu, Juliette Faber, Gabrielle Fontan, […]
Director Luigi Comencini’s super-good 1966 drama Incompreso (Vita col figlio) [Misunderstood] stars Anthony Quayle in the original Italian version of the 1984 English-language remake Misunderstood with Gene Hackman. Leo Benvenuti and Piero De Bernardi’s screenplay […]
The 1984 drama film Misunderstood features outstanding performances from Gene Hackman and little Henry Thomas as a busy father and his son desperate for love after the mother’s death. Director Jerry Schatzberg’s 1984 drama film […]
Director Andrew McLaglen’s 1975 thriller Mitchell stars Joe Don Baker, who is well cast as Mitchell, a rough cop (‘brute force with a badge’) relentlessly pursuing a crime gang in Los Angeles in this tense, […]
Director Fred Guiol’s 1926 two-reel silent film 45 Minutes from Hollywood stars Glenn Tryon as Orville but it is remembered as the second time Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appear in the same film – […]
Director Gerald Thomas’s mildly enjoyable 1958 British B-movie crime film Chain of Events is adapted from a radio play called London Story by Leo McKern, and stars Susan Shaw, Dermot Walsh, Jack Watling and Lisa Gastoni, […]
Directed with some flair by Thomas Bentley and acted with much enthusiasm, the vintage 1934 thriller The Scotland Yard Mystery [re-tilted The Living Dead in the US] is the entertaining story of a battle between […]
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