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 […]
Director Tim Hunter’s little-seen 1982 Walt Disney Productions film Tex, adapted from one S E Hinton’s bestselling tales of troubled teenagers, is a rewarding, understated yarn about two brothers, Tex and Mason McCormick, in the […]
Frankie Bois (Corban Walker) pens his life story in director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s delicious 1995 heartwarmer Frankie Starlight, an adaptation of Chet Raymo’s novel The Dork of Cork. As his mother Bernadette (Anne Parillaud) brings up […]
The when and where of a murder are announced in the Chipping Cleghorn Gazette. The 1985 three-episode TV mini-series A Murder Is Announced stars the redoubtable Joan Hickson in her third case as the BBC’s […]
Peter Ustinov’s tour-de-force 1965 comedy film Lady L follows the route of Louise Lendale (Sophia Loren) from poor laundress in a Paris brothel to English lady via a series of espionage-style misadventures. The 1965 comedy […]
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