Director George Sidney’s 1952 MGM rip-snorting Technicolor adventure tale Scaramouche is based on the 1921 novel by Rafael Sabatini and has main star Stewart Granger swashing a florid buckle as André-Louis Moreau, who needs to wreak […]
‘Sir John Gielgud’s a Japanese spy… a down-and-out drunk… a wealthy aristocrat and a grandfather punk! Pamela Stephenson’s classy, she’s brassy… a French maid who mixes seduction with deduction.’ Director Rob Cohen’s 1984 Scandalous is […]
Director Tinto Brass’s highly controversial 1979 Caligula [Caligola] is the notorious, infamous, hugely costly ($17,500,000) Seventies porn and violence movie, produced by Penthouse Films (US) and Felix Cinematografica (Italy), and released by GTO in 1980 […]
Director Arthur Lubin’s 1937 black and white adventure California Straight Ahead! stars John Wayne, who leads this Universal Pictures second feature about rivalry in the US transcontinental shipping business. The rivalry leads to a cross-country […]
Director David Macdonald’s 1950 thriller Cairo Road stars Laurence Harvey, aged 21, at the start of his film career, although already in his fifth film. He supports his friend Eric Portman in an exotically located […]
Director Pat O’Connor’s 1984 thriller Cal stars John Lynch as Cal, the 19-year-old unemployed Catholic IRA man in Ulster, who falls for Catholic woman Marcella (Helen Mirren), widow of the Protestant policeman he has reluctantly […]
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 […]
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