John Ford’s 1955 biopic The Long Gray Line is a rambling, amiable, catch-in-the-throat toast to West Point coach Marty Maher (Tyrone Power) and his 50 years at the renowned military academy. An apparently well-cast Power […]
Director John Carpenter’s 1992 Memoirs of an Invisible Man is a shaky but tolerable special effects-led comedy action thriller revision of the 1933 Claude Rains classic The Invisible Man that casts the wrong star in […]
‘If you haven’t seen Cleo, you haven’t seen the chick who tops ’em all… She’s 6’2″‘ Director Jack Starrett’s robust 1973 blaxploitation action crime thriller stars Tamara Dobson as Cleopatra Jones, a karate-kicking CIA agent […]
‘Mr Hardy is a man of great care, caution and discretion – Mr Laurel is married too.’ ‘No man is bigger than the excuses he makes to his wife. So Be Big!’ Director James Parrott’s […]
Director Fred Zinnemann’s 1964 Behold a Pale Horse is a high-class, but low-involvement post-Spanish Civil War drama, afflicted by much miscasting, but with dignified acting none the less. Zinnemann was probably most interested in the […]
Director Stuart Hagmann’s 1970 drama The Strawberry Statement is an interesting, extremely well-acted but uneasy and hesitant college confrontation youth movie with an excitingly staged violent clash between students and the authorities at the climax. […]
Director Stuart Hagmann’s 1971 drama Believe in Me stars Michael Sarrazin and Jacqueline Bisset. Sarrazin was in a relationship for seven years (1967–1974) with Bisset, whom he met while making The Sweet Ride (1968). Hagmann, the director […]
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