Director Jacques Becker’s gritty 1960 French crime thriller / drama Le Trou [The Hole] tells a grim but gripping and intelligent escape story, based on a novel by José Giovanni but taken from real life, […]
Director J Lee Thompson’s 1965 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! Is an off-target, iffy, campy and very silly Sixties satirical comedy from writer William Peter Blatty, the man who wrote The Exorcist. Richard Crenna plays […]
John Carpenter’s 2001 movie Ghosts of Mars is enjoyably silly, if trashy sci-fi horror action entertainment, directed with tongue firmly planted in cheek by Carpenter, who keeps it fast and exciting, and quite tough toned. […]
Director Peter Yates’s 1969 romantic drama John and Mary tells a slender but beguiling little anecdote with the help of charming turns from two then sweet, upcoming young players, Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow as […]
Director Hollingsworth Morse’s 1970 family comedy adventure Pufnstuf is an adaptation for the big screen of the children’s TV series H R Pufnstuf (17 episodes, 1969-1970), which will fill many a baby boomer with nostalgia […]
Director Basil Dearden’s 1954 Ealing Studios Technicolor sports drama The Rainbow Jacket stars Bill Owen as Sam, an experienced (but not entirely straight) champion jockey, banned from the races, who shows a youngster called Georgie […]
Director Richard C Sarafian’s 1976 The Next Man stars Sean Connery, who is awkwardly cast as Khalil Abdul-Muhsen, an influential Saudi Arabian diplomatic ambassador seeking to make to make peace with Israel by negotiating a […]
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