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 […]
The stylish if impenetrable 1970 British mystery thriller film Fragment of Fear stars husband and wife David Hemmings and Gayle Hunnicutt. Director Richard C Sarafian’s 1970 British film Fragment of Fear is a stylish and […]
Producer-director Gregory La Cava’s 1939 screwball romantic comedy Fifth Avenue Girl [5th Ave Girl] is a sweet Hollywood fairy tale starring Ginger Rogers as a penniless, on-the-dole, plain-Jane called Mary Grey, who is taken in […]
Director David Wheatley’s 1989 historical romantic drama The Fifteen Streets is a very capably directed, incident-filled romance, effectively adapted by Rob Bettinson from a Catherine Cookson novel, with a well-played cast of rich caricatures and […]
Jean Vigo films the French swimming champion Jean Taris performing different swimming acts as he gives us a tour of his water kingdom in the 10-minute avant garde 1931 sport documentary short film Taris, roi […]
Jean Vigo’s deservedly acclaimed 1929 avant-garde ‘point-of-view’ documentary A Propos de Nice satirises the difference between the rich tourists promenading in the sun on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice on the French Cote d’Azur […]
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