Co-writer/ director Paul Bartel’s 1976 Cannonball [Carquake] is a follow-up in similar action vein to his 1975 hit Death Race 2000, this time a full-on Seventies-style slap-up comedy action adventure about the ruthless people, chiefly Coy […]
James Cagney gives a powerful, yet well-controlled performance as a newsman called Lew Marsh fighting alcoholism, in director Gordon Douglas’s involving 1951 study of the evils of drink, Come Fill the Cup, based on a […]
Director Henry Levin 1962 grounded Come Fly with Me tells the romantic tale of three empty-headed air hostesses (Dolores Hart as Donna Stuart, Pamela Tiffin as Carol Brewster and Lois Nettleton as ‘Bergie’ Bergstrom) looking […]
The young Peter Firth, then star of Equus on stage, took on a very different role as Bobby Stewart, a boy who restores a sports car – a late Forties red MG TC – that […]
Director Sidney Hayers’s 1969 UK France co-production caper The Southern Star [L’Etoile du Sud] is a carefree, endearing Sixties adventure movie of fun and games in Africa, with a slapdash script based remotely on a […]
Joan Collins tops the bill as Carol Radford, in director Sidney Hayers’s unedifying but efficient country-set 1971 British revenge thriller Revenge [Inn of the Frightened People] about two men visiting the recluse they suspect has […]
René Clément’s chilling 1970 French mystery thriller Rider on the Rain [Le Passager de la Pluie] is the film that turned Charles Bronson into a star in Europe. Director René Clément’s 1970 French-Italian mystery thriller […]
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