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’ […]
Director Monty [Montague] Banks’s 1941 black and white wartime comedy Great Guns stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, trying only partly successfully to revamp their career with a new studio (20th Century Fox), as soft, […]
‘9:00 am to 10:00 am. That important hour when financial kings of American affairs open their mail.’ Director Emmett J Flynn’s 1928 two-reeler black and white silent comedy short Early to Bed is the first […]
Director James Parrott’s two-reeler 1930 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy short Brats is a plotless series of funny gags, with witty characterisations, clever trick photography, expert sets and a very good production. The Brats […]
Director Harold Becker turns Joseph Wambaugh’s factually based novel about a kidnapped cop Karl Hettinger (John Savage), who witnesses his partner Ian Campbell (Ted Danson)’s murder, into a distinguished inquiry into the American judicial system. […]
Harold Becker’s 1980 cop mystery thriller romcom film The Black Marble stars an excellent cast headed by Robert Foxworth, Paula Prentiss and Harry Dean Stanton. Director Harold Becker’s 1980 cop mystery thriller romcom film The […]
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