The tremendous, starry cast means the singing and acting are thoroughly rousing in director Francesco Rosi’s 1984 film of the Georges Bizet opera Carmen, but it is less thrilling and imaginative as cinema than the […]
Antonio Gades (as the choreographer Antonio and the film’s real choreographer) and sizzling Laura del Sol (as the main dancer Carmen) kick up a storm in director Carlos Saura’s 1983 Spanish dance film Carmen. In […]
Director Edward Ludwig’s 1952 thriller Big Jim McLain is McCarthyite rightist propaganda from John Wayne’s production company, with John Wayne and James Arness as US government agents – House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain […]
The 1955 Western film The Violent Men stars Glenn Ford as John Parrish, a Union officer who returns from the Civil War a pacifist, but is stirred into violent action by ruthless Lew Wilkison (Edward […]
Director Sergio Sollima’s 1970 Italian-French urban crime thriller Violent City [Città violenta], stars Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland and Telly Savalas. It opens with an impressive car chase sequence on the island of St Thomas in […]
Western cult stars Lee Van Cleef and Tomas Milian give great workouts for their practised, long-polished turns in director Sergio Sollima’s tough-toned 1966 European Western film The Big Gundown [La resa dei conti] about a […]
Let’s give a big hand for the entertaining The Sting-style Technicolor comedy Western film A Big Hand for the Little Lady, in which a family of con merchants take on a handful of wealthy gamblers […]
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