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 […]
Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Candice Bergen and Anna Karina are in trouble in director Guy Green’s murky, muddled and meandering 1968 film of the then in-vogue John Fowles novel The Magus. As screenwriter, Fowles just […]
Gus Van Sant’s hilarious 1986 debut film Mala Noche stars Tim Strecter as a gay shop clerk, who falls head-over-heels for a teenaged illegal Mexican migrant worker (Doug Cooeyate). Writer-director Gus Van Sant’s hilarious 1986 fable […]
Director Frank Perry’s strong, dark, X-rated 1969 drama of troubled teens Last Summer is based on Evan Hunter’s novel of youthful passions, teen angst and young cruelty. Last Summer is an intelligent, believable version of […]
Jean Gabin gives a tremendous performance as Georges Simenon’s famed pipe-smoking police inspector Maigret, investigating Jack the Ripper-type knife-murders of women in Paris’s seedy Montmartre. Director Jean Delannoy’s extremely satisfying, top-level 1958 French police thriller […]
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