Elvis Presley’s last film Elvis on Tour (1972) is ‘a close-up of the birth and life of an American phenomenon’, according to producer-directors Pierre Adidge and Robert Abel (who also made Mad Dogs and Englishmen). […]
Kurt Russell leads as Elvis in director John Carpenter’s compelling 1979 biographical account of Presley’s rise to stardom, making an effective stab at re-creating the King, with help from country singer Ronnie McDowell’s excellent voicing […]
Elvis Presley dives to the bottom of the barrel as a singing US Navy deep sea diver frogman called Ted Jackson, who thinks he has become incredibly rich when, joined by go-go dancer Jo Symington […]
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, […]
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