The 1986 TV movie Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage again stars Joan Hickson, who takes on her fifth case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on Agatha Christie’s first novel to feature Miss […]
Director Robert Mulligan’s 1962 ambitious and well-intentioned failure The Spiral Road is based on Jan de Hartog’s novel and stars Rock Hudson as a mid-1930s stop-at-nothing doctor in trouble, bent on using Dr Brits Jansen […]
The 1975 British horror mystery thriller film The Spiral Staircase is a close but modernised and unhappy remake of the 1946 classic American chiller. Director Peter Collinson’s 1975 British horror mystery thriller The Spiral Staircase […]
The 1985 TV movie Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye again stars Joan Hickson, who takes on her fourth case as the BBC’s detective Miss Marple, based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Director Guy […]
Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1933 Warner Bros black and white crime comedy Lady Killer stars James Cagney as gangster Dan Quigley, who is on the run from the law but he washes up in the […]
Trevor Nunn’s 1986 film Lady Jane is a pretty historical drama about the 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey (Helena Bonham Carter). The fine cast includes Cary Elwes, John Wood, Michael Hordern, Jill Bennett, Jane Lapotaire, Joss […]
Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1942 The Lady Is Willing is a frothy, mostly appealing, Forties-period romantic comedy in which an eccentric Broadway showgirl, Elizabeth Madden (the incomparable Marlene Dietrich effectively cast against type), is so desperate […]
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