The very spitting image of Captain Birdseye, Lionel Barrymore has a whale of a time with his role as sea Captain Bering Joy, a spectacularly grizzled ship’s captain, in this entertaining, old-fashioned sea saga about […]
Director Lothar Mendes’s 1931 film Ladies’ Man is a well-crafted romantic melodrama, based on a novel by Rupert Hughes, with a screenplay by Herman J Mankiewicz. It stars William Powell as Jamie Darricott, a Machiavellian […]
An extraordinary gathering of prestigious French film-makers and performers contributes to the 1952 French/ Italian co-production portmanteau movie The Seven Deadly Sins [Les Sept Péchés Capitaux], an elegant and entertaining collection of modern interpretations of […]
In this 1961 black and white French remake of a classic 1952 portmanteau movie The Seven Deadly Sins [Les Sept Péchés Capitaux], an extraordinary gathering of prestigious French film-makers come together to contribute to this […]
Director Claude Chabrol’s 1990 German, Italian, French sci-fi policier/ futuristic thriller Dr M [Club Extinction], an homage to Fritz Lang’s Dr Mabuse, The Gambler (1922), goes awry, but it does maintain a slight level of interest […]
Those cool and distinguished players Stéphane Audran and Michel Piccoli star in writer-director Claude Chabrol’s 1973 Hitchcockian French crime thriller Red Wedding [Les Noces rouges], loosely based on real events. Those cool and distinguished players […]
Shhhh… pray silence please… George Sanders is just committing a murder in the library… well that’s one way to get a book… Director John Larkin’s 1942 Quiet Please: Murder is a pleasantly peculiar library-set crime-drama […]
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