The public of the day was more mystified than amused by director Richard Lester’s 1969 The Bed Sitting Room, but it does entertain sporadically and sustain a level of interest when viewed now on TV. […]
The all too moderate 1986 effort Firewalker is a below-par vehicle for popular action star Chuck Norris, in which Patricia Goodwin (Melody Anderson) hires adventurer fortune hunters (Max Donigan) Norris and Leo Porter (Louis Gossett […]
John Wayne stars in director William A Seiter’s rousing 1939 Western action epic Allegheny Uprising [The First Rebel], set in 1759 in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny Valley. Wayne plays an American frontier pioneer Jim Smith who leads […]
Director Nathan Juran’s 1964 sci-fi adventure yarn First Men in the Moon, taken from a story by H G Wells, is aimed to please eager teenagers, though it has some appeal to dads too. A […]
All aboard the London to Folkestone express for Michael Crichton’s 1979 Victorian crime caper, with Sean Connery as the cracksman William Pierce and Donald Sutherland as the safe-cracker Agar. ‘Steal from a moving train? Whoever […]
Director Alan Clarke’s 1989 BBC film The Firm stars Gary Oldman, who sizzles in this unsettling, violent TV movie as Bex Bissell, the psychotic leader of a London firm of soccer hooligans. He is 30, […]
Director-deviser Wendy Toye’s excellent 1952 British black and white short film mystery drama The Stranger Left No Card stars the young Alan Badel in his film debut as an enigmatic stranger who arrives by train […]
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