David Niven’s debonair charm is just right for E W Hornung’s celebrated England Test cricketer and amateur cracksman A J Raffles, in the tasty and likeable 1939 crime mystery movie Raffles. David Niven’s debonair charm […]
Director Henry Hathaway’s 1955 sporting drama The Racers [Such Men Are Dangerous] stars Kirk Douglas as Gino Borgesa, who dashes around the picturesque roads of Europe in his quest to win the Monaco Grand Prix, […]
Director Richard Benjamin’s 1984 Racing with the Moon is an attractive, affectionate, poignant World War Two coming of age tale of two young men about to go to off war in 1943 California as they await […]
Director Arnold Laven’s 1956 MGM black and white Korean War drama The Rack is rarely shown and virtually forgotten, despite its inherent interest as drama and a cast that includes Paul Newman, Walter Pidgeon, Edmond […]
Director H C Potter’s merry and diverting 1957 romantic comedy Top Secret Affair stars Susan Hayward as Dottie Peale, a newswoman publisher who tries to bring army war-hero/ politician Major General Melville A Goodwin (Kirk […]
Marcel Pagnol directs the 1951 French comedy film Topaze, remaking his own 1936 film Topaze, based on his 1928 play of the same name, again as Topaze, this time starring Fernandel and Hélène Perdrière. It […]
Louis Jouvet is brilliant in his memorable film debut as Professor Albert Topaze in director Louis J Gasnier’s Topaze, the sophisticated comedy drama classic original 1933 French version of the Marcel Pagnol story about a […]
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