Good Morning [Ohayô] (1959) is a gently mocking Japanese comedy of social manners from director Yasujirô Ozu that centres on the refusal of Keitarô Hayashi (Chishû Ryû) to buy a television set for his two […]
Early Summer [Bakushû] (1951) is a typical drama film from esteemed Japanese master director Yasujirô Ozu about the emotional turmoil of a family torn between old and new traditions. Written by Ozu and Kôgo Noda, […]
The 1953 Japanese drama Tokyo Story [Tôkyô monogatari] is the glowing masterpiece that finally established the reputation of its director Yasujirô Ozu outside Japan. Quietly devastating, it is a moving and detailed study of the […]
The 1938 British film Vessel of Wrath [The Beachcomber] is made for the Mayflower Pictures Corporation, a film company formed by star Charles Laughton and producer-director Eric Pommer. Happily, Laughton’s first venture into film production […]
William Inge’s renowned Pulitzer prize-winning play The Dark at the Top of the Stairs transfers to the screen in Delbert Mann’s good looking but vaguely unsatisfactory, rather stagey 1960 film production, lovingly adapted by screen-writing […]
Producer-director Owen Crump’s 1962 film The Couch is a grisly suspense horror thriller with a screenplay by Robert Bloch (the author of Psycho) about a murderously inclined psychiatric patient (Grant Williams), who, instead of heeding […]
Director Michael Gordon’s 1965 romantic comedy A Very Special Favor stars Charles Boyer as smooth and mature Frenchman Michel Boullard, who, for scant plot reasons, asks a wealthy American oilman called Paul Chadwick (Rock Hudson) if […]
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