‘She Lives. Don’t Move. Don’t Breathe. She Will Find You.’ Unfortunately, the green-horror crossover genre has never been particularly successful, and director John Frankenheimer’s 1979 killer bear monster movie Prophecy is no exception. Ecology and […]
Tales of Fifties misunderstood youth were ten a penny, but director John Frankenheimer’s 1957 The Young Stranger is a first-class one in the best Rebel Without a Cause tradition, thanks to the playing of James […]
Director John Frankenheimer’s second movie The Young Savages (following The Young Stranger in 1957) is a smartly handled, sincere courtroom drama with a lot of social conscience and a small slice of romance. Burt Lancaster […]
The 1972 film Every Little Crook and Nanny is a surprisingly entertaining comedy about a mafioso (Victor Mature) losing his 12-year-old son (Phillip Graves) to his nanny (Lynn Redgrave) as she masterminds the kidnapping of […]
Director John Frankenheimer’s 1962 drama All Fall Down is a distinguished piece of film-making based on a novel by James Leo Herlihy, the author of Midnight Cowboy, about a young man called Clinton Willart (Brandon […]
Director Edward Sedgwick’s 1943 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy Air Raid Wardens stars Stan and Ollie as bankrupt fertiliser dealers, pet-shop owners and cycle store owners, who are turned down for armed service in […]
Director Marcel Carné’s 1937 French pre-war classic Drôle de Drame [Bizarrre, Bizarre] is a marvellously funny and brilliantly inventive black comedy, taken at a breathlessly fast slapstick lick. It is graced with stupendous performances by […]
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