The 1964 Italian drama The Empty Canvas [La Noia] [L’Ennuie et Sa Diversion] stars Bette Davis, who makes a mistaken trip to Rome for director Damiano Damiani’s film of Alberto Moravia’s novel La Noia. She […]
The 1991 British drama film Enchanted April is an enchanting version of the sentimental tale based on Elizabeth von Arnim’s novel, with stylish acting by Golden Globe-winning Joan Plowright and Miranda Richardson. The 1991 British […]
The sturdy 1959 Western film Cast a Long Shadow stars Audie Murphy as boozing, gambling Matt Brown, who drifts back to his one-time ranch and fuels the fights of yesteryear. Director Thomas Carr’s 1959 black […]
Director George Sidney’s 1947 romantic drama Cass Timberlane stars Lana Turner as poor girl Virginia Marshland, who marries older rich judge Cass Timberlane (Spencer Tracy), loses her baby, and then starts fancying the shifty attorney […]
Director Ken Russell’s first feature French Dressing (1964) is a British satirical seaside farce with Marisa Mell as a French starlet taken up by Gormleigh-on-Sea’s deckchair man and lady reporter as the local kind of […]
Producer-director S Sylvan Simon’s 1949 Lust for Gold stars Ida Lupino, who is suitably tough and completely believable as Julia Thomas, the ruthless woman trying to steal a gold mine from her equally money-obsessed cohorts […]
Director Kon Ichikawa’s 1963 Japanese adventure classic Alone on the Pacific [Taiheiyô Hitoribotchi] [My Enemy the Sea] stars Yûjirô Ishihara as Kenichi Horie, a young man who defies his parents, the authorities and the sea […]
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