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 […]
‘Two’s company. Four’s a riot.’ An amusing screenplay and winning performances by brassy Bette Midler and subtle Lily Tomlin as two sets of identical twins ensured big business for Big Business (1988), this funny screwball […]
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