Writer-director Giuseppe Colizzi’s violent 1969 Spaghetti Western film Boot Hill [La Collina degli Stivali] has too much broad, off-target comedy and offers yet another popular, if easily resistible pairing of Terence Hill (as Cat Stevens!) […]
Director Claude Chabrol’s 1960 black and white romantic mystery drama Les Bonnes Femmes [The Girls] tells the tale of four young women – Jane (Bernadette Lafont), Ginette (Chabrol’s later wife Stéphane Audran), Jacqueline (Clotilde Joano) […]
Director Jack Gold’s 1968 British drama The Bofors Gun stars Nicol Williamson, Ian Holm, David Warner, John Thaw, Peter Vaughan, Barry Jackson, Richard O’Callaghan and Donald Gee. Fine acting saves the day for this glum […]
Writer Tom Stoppard turns director to supervise the 1990 film Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the movie of his wordy (or dialogue driven) play about two of the minor characters from Hamlet – courtiers who […]
Director Gregory Ratoff’s 1939 black and white musical Rose of Washington Square stars Alice Faye, who grabs one of her best chances as Rose Sargent, a 1920s New York singer trying to perform a difficult […]
Writer-director Jerzy Skolimowski’s 1982 British drama Moonlighting is a fascinating allegorical piece about deceit and theft, with a sterling performance by Jeremy Irons as contractor Nowak, the leader of a small band of Polish workers […]
‘Question: What is the surest way to keep a husband home? Answer: Break both his legs.’ Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy leave their wives to go golfing, chased off by Mrs Hardy (Kay Deslys) after […]
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