H G Wells’s comic novel The History of Mr Polly is effectively and brightly brought to the screen in 1948 with a witty screenplay by writer-director Anthony Pelissier and one of John Mills’s best performances […]
Director George Kaczender’s enjoyably sexy 1978 Canadian romantic comedy drama In Praise of Older Women stars the ideally cast young and hunky Tom Berenger, who has a good time as the callow, curly-topped hunk Andras […]
Director Henry King’s 1938 In Old Chicago is a sumptuous, beautifully acted and thoroughly enjoyable, fanciful tale of old Chicago running up to the Great Fire of 1871. Alice Brady picked up a best supporting […]
Director William C McGann’s 1942 action romance Western In Old California stars John Wayne, trying to stretch his range and acting muscles a little to play a Boston pharmacist! Wayne, not your usual Hollywood bespectacled pharmacist, […]
‘Wildcat Men and their Wildcat Women!’ Director Albert S Rogell’s 1943 romance Western In Old Oklahoma [War of the Wildcats] stars John Wayne as nice cowboy Dan Somers, who takes on Albert Dekker’s bad oil tycoon […]
Among the intriguing star actors aboard the tolerable but glum 1975 disaster movie The Hindenburg are George C Scott and Roy Thinnes as security men Colonel Franz Ritter (Scott) and Martin Vogel (Thinnes), Anne Bancroft […]
Co-writer/director Philip Kaufman delivers a highly entertaining slice of nostalgia in his 1979 teenage coming of age movie The Wanderers, with an expertly blended mix of comedy, drama, 1963 period atmosphere, rock ‘n’ roll soundtrack […]
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