Director Leo McCarey’s irresistible 1934 musical comedy drama Belle of the Nineties is a highspot for the 41-year-old Mae West in her fourth film, following She Done Him Wrong and I’m No Angel, both co-starring Cary […]
Ah, yes, ‘Terror Beyond Belief’. Dario Argento’s 1982 horror mystery thriller movie (giallo) Tenebre [Tenebrae] delivers the goods in spadefuls in this marvellously scary triumph of style over nasty and often silly content. Ah, yes, […]
Director Robert Aldrich keeps the tension reasonably high in his 1959 thriller Ten Seconds to Hell, despite a contrived, none too credible plot device, the unattractive characters, poor German accents and the insipid romantic interludes. […]
Director Michael Curtiz assembles a fine cast for his minor 1955 film noir The Scarlet Hour, but the cast is largely wasted on the fairly turgid story of an adulterous wife (Carol Ohmart) and her […]
Director Willis Goldbeck’s 1951 Technicolor adventure Ten Tall Men is an engaging, light-hearted send-up of French Foreign Legion movies like Beau Geste. It finds Burt Lancaster evidently enjoying himself as the US sergeant, Mike Kincaid, […]
After the Hollywood sheen of his masterworks Rosemary’s Baby and Chinatown, director Roman Polanski returns to a far smaller canvas in the compelling 1976 paranoia psychological suspense thriller The Tenant, about Trelkovsky (played by the […]
Director H Bruce Humberstone’s run-of-the-mill 1955 Technicolor Western Ten Wanted Men stars Randolph Scott, who is his usual stalwart self as John Stewart, an Arizona cattleman fighting tricky rancher Wick Campbell (Richard Boone) after his […]
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