Colin Petersen, aged nine, stars as cheeky Smiley Greevins in the entertaining 1956 comedy drama film Smiley. He later became a drummer and an equal partner in the Bee Gees. Director Anthony Kimmins’s 1956 comedy […]
Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1957 A Cry from the Streets stars amiable singer-star (and briefly film actor) Max Bygraves, who ignores the best advice and works with children in this simple tale about a child welfare […]
Director Leslie Norman’s 1959 black and white comedy drama Summer of the Seventeenth Doll [Season of Passion] stars Ernest Borgnine, John Mills, Angela Lansbury and Anne Baxter, and Norman brings back Dana Wilson, the little […]
Director Leslie Norman’s 1957 British Australian Western film The Shiralee is produced by Michael Balcon, made by Ealing Studios, and stars Peter Finch, Dana Wilson and Elizabeth Sellars. It is based on the debut full-length […]
Writer-director Thomas [Tom] Rickman’s powerful 1984 Mississippi-set drama The River Rat is all about the growing love between Billy McCain (Tommy Lee Jones) and his plucky 12-year-old daughter Jonsy (Martha Plimpton), who meet for the […]
The 1982 crime mystery thriller film Murder Is Easy stars Bill Bixby, Lesley-Anne Down, Olivia de Havilland and Helen Hayes in an atmospheric and good-looking adaptation of a complex 1939 Agatha Christie novel. Director Claude […]
Veteran stars Helen Hayes (aged 85) and Bette Davis (aged 77 and returning to filming after a serious stroke that impaired her appearance and mobility) make their first appearance together in director Dick Lowry’s 1985 […]
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