Director Don Chaffey’s 1958 black and white British thriller The Man Upstairs stars Richard Attenborough in the downbeat but involving story of apartment block tenant Peter Watson, The Man Upstairs who is having a nervous […]
Director Victor Erice’s 1992 Spanish drama The Quince Tree Sun [El Sol Del Membrillo] is a hypnotic rumination on art and life, taken at an audaciously sedate pace and at considerable length by Erice, who […]
Director Franco Zeffirelli’s sumptuous, thrilling 1982 Italian film version of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La Traviata, based on Alexandre Dumas Fils’s The Lady of the Camelias [La dame aux camélias], is a glossy paean to the […]
The 1981 French-Italian romantic drama film Lady of the Camelias stars Isabelle Huppert and tells the actual story of Alphonsine Plessis, who became a famous courtesan in Paris and inspired the novel La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas Fils. […]
Director Brian Desmond Hurst’s 1955 adventure drama Simba is a surprisingly effective, tough and well-made Rank studios film about a British family of settlers in East Africa besieged by Kenya’s Mau Mau terrorists. The British […]
Director Francesco Maselli’s below-par 1968 Swinging Sixties Italian comedy thriller A Fine Pair [Ruba al prossimo tuo] stars Rock Hudson and Claudia Cardinale, reunited from Blindfold (1966), who make a fine pair as a married […]
Co-writer/ director Philip Dunne’s enjoyable 1965 Swinging Sixties comedy crime mystery thriller Blindfold stars Rock Hudson as a New York psychiatrist, Dr Bartholomew Snow, who is hired by American general Prat (Jack Warden) and his […]
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