Director Ronnie Baxter’s 1972 senior citizens comedy For the Love of Ada is a warm-hearted but fairly feeble TV spin-off film, which tries to open out an already fairly feeble TV series that entirely motors […]
‘Because I’m Chaos, it is my destiny to destroy.’ – Mister Frost. Alan Bates stars as British cop Felix Detweiler, who continues to pursue suave mass murderer Mister Frost (Jeff Goldblum) when he is transferred […]
‘Joe Moses is his name… stealing Africa is his game!’ Director Ronald Neame’s badly dated 1965 adventure film Mister Moses is feeble if well-meaning Boys Own adventure stuff, with a quasi-Bible theme, reworking the story […]
Director Jack Garfein’s 1957 black and white drama The Strange One is a powerful, up-front hothouse US Southern military academy saga, in which Ben Gazzara stars as cadet leader Jocko De Paris, who exercises a […]
Director John Cromwell’s 1930 early sound black and white comedy-drama film Tom Sawyer is the first sound version of the 1876 Mark Twain classic novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It is pleasing though very […]
MGM toast the 75th anniversary of the American publication of Mark Twain’s 1884 classic book with Michael Curtiz’s nimble 1960 film version The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was first published […]
Director Norman Taurog’s 1931 family comedy Huckleberry Finn [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] is Paramount’s pleasing, now faded second version of the Mark Twain classic (after a 1919 silent with Lewis Sargent as Huckleberry Finn), […]
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