The 1971 French movie Juste Avant la Nuit [Just Before Nightfall] is a resonant, meticulously made, richly satisfying Claude Chabrol psychological crime thriller. Michel Bouquet stars as the slimy and pathetic advertising executive Charles Masson, […]
Director Joseph McGrath’s eccentric 1969 satirical comedy The Magic Christian stars Peter Sellers as a millionaire called Sir Guy Grand and Ringo Starr as the homeless boy Youngman, the son he adopts to be his heir, […]
James Garner gives an engaging lightweight turn as the lead character William Beddoes, an American businessman abroad on a work trip in Portugal, who gets confused with a British spy on the trail of lost diamonds, […]
Director Mike Vardy’s 1973 Man at the Top is the third film about that nasty piece of work Joe Lampton, this time a Hammer Films studios spin-off from the popular Thames TV series (1970-72) with […]
Director David Hemmings’s 1978 musical drama Just a Gigolo [Schöner Gigolo, Armer Gigolo] stars the astonishing cast of David Bowie, Sydne Rome, Kim Novak, David Hemmings, Maria Schell and Curd Jürgens [Curt Jurgens] – ‘and […]
Director John D Hancock’s 1973 sports drama Bang the Drum Slowly stars young Robert De Niro giving a moving performance as mentally simple Bruce the catcher, a New York baseball player dying of Hodgkin’s disease, who […]
Michael Caine’s career was in deepest doldrums with The Swarm, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure and then director Richard Fleischer’s terrible 1979 adventure drama Ashanti, in which he plays English born Dr David Linderby, a member […]
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