Director Lewis Milestone’s 1939 Of Mice and Men is a masterpiece, the best work of the beloved character actor star Lon Chaney Jr. It was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best […]
The 1961 British drama film Flame in the Streets stars John Mills as a large company’s union organiser who struggles when his only daughter (Sylvia Syms) announces that she plans to wed her Jamaican boyfriend […]
Writer-director Xiaolu Xue’s entertaining Chinese-Australian co-production The Whistleblower (2019) is at heart a good old-fashioned epic chase conspiracy thriller, with some modern trimmings – OMG, way, way too much CGI! The CGI is no doubt […]
John Mills stars as a brain-damaged amnesiac, who becomes the chief murder suspect, in the 1947 British noir crime drama The October Man. Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1947 British noir crime drama The October Man […]
A well-cast Jon Voight scored a big hit in the 1974 Frederick Forsyth thriller film The Odessa File about a German reporter on the trail of neo-Nazis. Director Ronald Neame’s 1974 The Odessa File stars […]
Co-writer/ director Michael McCarthy’s 1958 Operation Amsterdam is a decent though low-tension real-life World War Two action drama about British-Netherlands trio Jan Smit (Peter Finch), Walter Keyser (Alexander Knox) and Major Dillon (Tony Britton) linking […]
Director Thorold Dickinson’s 1937 British drama The High Command stars Lionel Atwill, Lucie Mannheim, Steven Geray and the young James Mason, who catches the eye as Captain Heverell, a British officer involved in army intrigue, […]
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