Arthur Haley’s bestselling novel about the dramas at a grand hotel (the imaginary St Gregory in New Orleans) gets the glossy, over-elaborate, rather laborious Hollywood treatment in director Richard Quine’s 1967 film Hotel. It is […]
‘CHICKEN-RACE … ROCK ‘N ROLL … YOUTH ON THE LOOSE!’ ‘ARE THESE OUR CHILDREN? Teenage terrorists tearing up the streets!’ Director Leslie H Martinson’s campy 1956 black and white teensploitation action psychotronic film Hot Rod […]
‘What happens to girls without men?’ The campy 1956 psychotronic film Girls in Prison stars Richard Denning, Joan Taylor and Adele Jergens. In 1956, even a film called Girls in Prison had a male star. […]
A fine cast distinguishes director Henry King’s 1957 film The Sun Also Rises, 20th Century Fox’s CinemaScope, Deluxe Color version of Ernest Hemingway’s story of a ‘lost generation’ of 1920’s American ex-patriates living in Paris. […]
Director Vittorio De Sica’s 1970 drama Sunflower [I Girasoli] is a soppy wartime romantic melodrama, in which a particularly gorgeous-looking Sophia Loren plays Giovanna, who spends most of her time searching for her husband Antonio […]
The old ghost town of Purgatory in the Arizona desert is full of vampires, cowboy vampires that is, who use sunblock, shades and straw hats to keep off the sun, and rely on artificial blood to […]
Director Alan Clarke’s 1987 drama Rita, Sue and Bob Too is an unattractive sex comedy about two Bradford schoolgirls, Rita and Sue (Siobhan Finneran, Michelle Holmes), who fall for and have a sexual fling with […]
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