The 1967 Western film The Way West stars Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum and Richard Widmark, who make the most of this panoramic saga of a wagon train’s trek to Oregon in the 1840s through Native […]
Directors Harry Watt and Basil Wright 1936 Night Mail is the stirring and beautiful classic 1930s British documentary short, turning into poetry the apparently mundane subject of the special overnight mail train journey from London to […]
Basil Wright and Bill Launder’s 1951 black and white documentary short Waters of Time is a highly proficient and splendidly visual 1951 Festival of Britain celebration of waters of the Thames under the control of […]
Director Melvin Van Peebles’s interesting but undernourished 1970 race relations satirical comedy Watermelon Man stars Godfrey Cambridge as a white, married bigot, suburban insurance agent Jeff Gerber, who turns black overnight through a biological accident. […]
Director Arthur Lubin’s 1941 wartime services comedy Buck Privates [Rookies] stars Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in their first starring madcap nonsense, in which they play sidewalk salesmen Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown, who enlist […]
Director Gregory Ratoff’s 1949 black and white adventure movie Black Magic stars the old magician Orson Welles, who hams it up in an absurd swashbuckler as Cagliostro the magician-hypnotist-adventurer, who learns his skills from hypnotism […]
Director James W Horne’s 1931 black and white two-reeler short comedy One Good Turn stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Depression victims Laurel and Hardy haven’t eaten for three days – ‘yesterday, today and tomorrow’ […]
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