Director Allan Moyle’s 1980 music drama Times Square is a surprising, happy modern-day fairy tale, appealingly played, thoughtfully written, well produced by British companies Robert Stigwood Organization and EMI Films in America, and well made […]
The suspenseful, escapist 1989 TV movie Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery again stars Joan Hickson in her tenth case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on the novel by Agatha Christie. It is shot at […]
Harpo Marx takes centre stage for the Marx Brothers’ final movie together about mounting a Broadway show and foiling jewel thieves, in director David Miller’s 1949 black and white wisecracking comedy Love Happy [Kleptomaniacs]. Alas, there […]
The agreeable 1987 TV movie Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington stars Joan Hickson in her ninth case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on Agatha Christie’s novel. Miss Marple’s friend Mrs McGillicuddy sees a murder […]
Director Sidney J Furie’s 1972 musical drama film Lady Sings the Blues is Diana Ross’s finest hour in the movies, acting her socks off as the great but tragic blues singer Billie Holiday. The film’s […]
Director Rowland V Lee’s 1937 thriller Love from a Stranger [A Night of Terror] is the original, and far better, British version of Agatha Christie’s short story Philomel Cottage, before an American remake ten years […]
The inventive 1987 TV movie Miss Marple: Nemesis again stars Joan Hickson, who investigates her eighth case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Unusually for this faithful series, it […]
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