Director Claude Autant-Lara’s 1954 French romantic drama Le Rouge et le Noir [The Red and the Black] is a good-looking, attractively acted adaptation of the once scandalous 1831 Stendhal novel, in which humble Julien Sorel […]
Director Craig R Baxley’s 1994 film Deep Red is an involving, exciting and well-handled Sci-Fi horror thriller, with plenty of ideas rattling around and strong performances to motor it. The writer and producer is D […]
Director Rudolph Maté’s 1958 war drama adventure The Deep Six stars Alan Ladd as ‘Alec’ Austen, a World War Two Quaker naval lieutenant who loses the respect of his men through pacifist inaction, but regains […]
Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1947 comedy Suddenly It’s Spring stars Paulette Goddard, Fred MacMurray, Macdonald Carey and Arleen Whelan, and is based on the story Sentimental Journey by P J Wolfson. In an interesting gender-swap plotline, […]
Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1945 historical comedy drama stars Ray Milland as English lord Sir Hugh Marcy, who turns saucy common girl Kitty (Paulette Goddard) into a lady, in this amusing 18th-century My Fair Lady-style story. […]
Anthony Sher stars in director Philip Saville’s grotesque and repellent 1985 British black comedy Shadey about a broke car mechanic, Oliver Shadey (Sher), who uses his mind-reading powers to pay for a sex-change operation. Fine […]
Writer-director Harry Hook’s 1987 British drama The Kitchen Toto stars Bob Peck, Phyllis Logan and Edwin Mahinda. Mahinda plays a Kenyan boy called Mwangi, who is befriended by a British police chief, John Graham (Peck), […]
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