Director Vincente Minnelli comes a cropper with this stilted 1962 remake of the 1921 Rudolph Valentino silent classic The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The good star cast of Glenn Ford (as Julio Desnoyers), Ingrid […]
A quartet of runners gets ready for the 1960 Rome Olympics marathon in Michael Winner’s acceptable, occasionally exciting 1970 sports drama The Games, which is attractively filmed on globetrotting locations. Though the schematic yarn, loosely […]
The flamboyant, outspoken and sometimes controversial showman director Michael Winner directed 34 movies over a period of 40 years, all of them interesting, a handful of them good. He worked a lot with Charles Bronson […]
Michael Winner’s brutal and cynical 1972 revenge Western film Chato’s Land is worth while for the fine cast (Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore), painstaking film-making and impressive sequences. Director Michael Winner delivers a tough, […]
In a film of the greatest warmth and humanity, director Yves Robert’s 1990 French triumph La Gloire de Mon Père [My Father’s Glory] brings vividly to life on the screen Marcel (Jean de Florette) Pagnol’s […]
Director Yves Robert’s 1990 Le Château de Ma Mère [My Mother’s Castle] is the glorious sequel to La Gloire de Mon Père [My Father’s Glory]. Julien Ciamaca is superb as the teenager Marcel Pagnol, who […]
Director Al Christie’s 1930 Charley’s Aunt is the first sound version of the venerable Brandon Thomas cross dressing comedy farcical play, with an engaging, very entertaining star performance by Charles Ruggles. But it is a […]
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