Henry Hathaway began the direction, and the film’s screen-writer Bryan Forbes took over for one week (uncredited), and then Ken Hughes took over as rescue to finish the shooting of the 1964 third film version […]
Director Edmund Goulding’s 1946 black and white film of W Somerset Maugham’s novel Of Human Bondage has the misfortune to follow director John Cromwell’s much more exciting 1934 version of Of Human Bondage with the […]
Outstanding performances from Timothy Hutton as aloof young CIA man Christopher Boyce and Sean Penn as his amoral, drug-pusher buddy Daulton Lee light up director John Schlesinger’s taut, intelligent 1985 US thriller The Falcon and […]
Director Humphrey Jennings’s 1943 World War Two what if? documentary The Silent Village tells how it could have happened in Wales if there had been similar Nazi atrocities there to those perpetrated in 1942 on […]
Director Humphrey Jennings’s esoteric 1950 short film Family Portrait is a wistful, rather attractive and appealing documentary celebration of Britain’s past, with warmly nostalgic scenes of the nation’s home, town, farm, scientific, political and social life, […]
Richard Gere and Kevin Anderson star as folk hero brothers Frank and Terry Roberts, who fight back illegally when their Iowa farm goes bankrupt, by robbing the banks foreclosing on farmers, in Gary Sinise’s 1988 […]
Director Gary Sinese’s 1992 honourable big-screen version of John Steinbeck’s tragic story drama from his famed novella Of Mice and Men stars John Malkovich as the sweet, simple, childlike Lennie Small, the over-sized, mentally disabled […]
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