Director John Irvin’s 1985 Turtle Diary stars Glenda Jackson and Ben Kingsley as children’s book writer Neaera Duncan (Jackson) and bachelor bookseller William Snow (Kingsley), who decide to free two of the sea turtles from London […]
Writer-director Karl Francis’s powerful 1982 left-wing thriller drama Giro City centres around TV documentary coverage of IRA activity in Dublin and British civic corruption, and offers unusually strong roles for Glenda Jackson and Jon Finch. […]
Director Vincent Sherman’s 1947 black and white film noir thriller Nora Prentiss stars Ann Sheridan as Nora Prentiss, who is undoubtedly a swell girl, but would you fake your own death to be with her? […]
Director Peter Tewkesbury’s 1968 romantic musical comedy drama Stay Away, Joe stars Elvis Presley as a mixed race American Indian rodeo champ called Joe Lightcloud who helps out back home on his family’s traditional Native […]
Director Gordon Parks Jr’s successful though controversial 1972 action crime thriller Super Fly [Superfly] is a hit from the wave of 1970s blaxploitation movies, with Ron O’Neal working hard as Youngblood Priest/ Super Fly, a […]
The 1973 The Seven-Ups is an edge-of-seat cop thriller, with NYPD Detective Buddy Manucci (Roy Scheider) getting his mobster buddy Vito Lucia (Tony Lo Bianco) to help him catch the meanest bad guys. Producer-director Philip […]
Director Stanley Donen’s 1953 MGM ‘Breezy, Teasy Color by TECHNICOLOR Musical’ film Give a Girl a Break stars doughty dames Debbie Reynolds, Marge Champion and Helen Wood, each with their own champion, who vie for […]
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