Director Peter Yates’s 1989 action crime thriller An Innocent Man stars Tom Selleck as the innocent man Jimmie Rainwood, framed for drugs by two crooked cops, who finds himself in jail, where the going gets even tougher, […]
‘Slave girls sacrificed at the whim of a ruthless king!’ Director Siro Marcellini’s 1963 sword and sandal (peplum) adventure The Hero of Babylon [L’eroe di Babilonia] [Goliath, King of Slaves] [The Beast of Babylon Against […]
Lewis Gilbert’s 1975 wartime historical drama thriller film Operation Daybreak is a well-intentioned account of the Czech underground’s attempt to assassinate SS general Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1975 World War Two wartime historical drama thriller […]
Gena Rowlands is splendid as an ageing actress devastated when her biggest fan dies in an accident on her opening night, in John Cassavetes’s appealing 1977 drama film Opening Night. A long (it runs 144 […]
Director Peter Collinson’s violent, nasty and distasteful 1974 action thriller drama Open Season [Los Cazadores] is based on the novel The All Americans by David D Osborn, and stars Peter Fonda, John Philip Law, Richard Lynch, […]
Director David Paltenghi’s 1954 comedy Orders Are Orders is an engagingly cast (and grammatically correct) though iffily handled retread of Walter Forde’s vintage Orders Is Orders (1933), with a British army base driven to distraction […]
Director Roberto Faenza’s fascinating 1983 Italian crime thriller Order of Death [Cop Killer] [l’assassino dei poliziotti] [Corrupt] is a tautly made and intriguingly written thriller based on Hugh Fleetwood’s 1977 psychological novel The Order of […]
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