‘THE HELL-BENT, JAZZ-CRAZED ERA AND THE MAN WHO RULED IT ALL’ Director Joseph M Newman’s 1961 black and white B movie biographical crime drama King of the Roaring 20s – The Story of Arnold Rothstein […]
Alvin Rakoff’s 1958 British sexploitation drama film Passport to Shame [Room 43] is a downbeat crime tale about a taxi driver (Eddie Constantine), who weds a French woman (Odile Versois) for money and then protects […]
‘HALF-ANGEL……HALF-DEVIL, she made him HALF-A-MAN! ‘ After I Married a Woman, in August 1956 Diana Dors signed a contract with RKO Pictures to make three more movies, the first of which was the 1957 Technicolor film noir crime […]
‘What happens to the MOUSE when the CHEESECAKE bites back?’ British sex symbol Diana Dors’s performance in Yield to the Night (1956) attracted interest in Hollywood and in May 1956 she signed a contract with […]
Oskar Homolka has a field day playing Desius Heiss, an antique dealer with a secret criminal past, who is ready to kill to save his beautiful violin-playing daughter, Margaret (Muriel Pavlow), in director George King’s […]
The snappy acting by Danielle Darrieux, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Louis Hayward, Mischa Auer and Helen Broderick is a treat and director Henry Koster makes the time whiz by (and it is only 78 minutes) in […]
Writer-directors Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1966 for this 1965 heart-rending saga The Shop on Main Street [Obchod na korze] about a wood-worker Tono (Jozef Kroner) who tries […]
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