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’ […]
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. […]
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