Director David Zucker’s brilliantly zany 1991 The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear is more of the same comic misadventures with the treasurable Leslie Nielsen back as the seriously inept LA cop Lieutenant Frank […]
Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1942 movie Cairo is a spy comedy, though MGM advertised it as a ‘BIG ROMANCE WITH MUSIC’. It stars Robert Young as an American news reporter called Homer Smith […]
‘NOTHING LIKE IT SINCE ‘GRAPES OF WRATH’. Director Nicholas Ray’s 1958 romantic adventure drama Wind Across the Everglades is based on the story Across the Everglades by Budd Schulberg. It is made by Schulberg Productions, […]
Writer-director Barry Pollack’s 1972 Cool Breeze is an interesting if ordinary blaxploitation thriller movie reworking (for the third time) of the 1950 classic The Asphalt Jungle, with a predominately black cast headed by Jim Watkins […]
Director Delmer Daves’s 1958 The Badlanders is a tense, tough and taut Western remake of the classic 1950 heist movie The Asphalt Jungle, with Alan Ladd and Ernest Borgnine as Arizona crooks planning to outwit […]
The 1963 black and white Egypt jewel treasures heist caper thriller film Cairo is one of MGM’s three attempted remakes of the 1950 classic The Asphalt Jungle, with the supposedly ‘perfect’ robbery this time effectively […]
Director Byron Haskin’s 1954 jeopardy action adventure thriller The Naked Jungle stars Eleanor Parker as mail-order bride Joanna Leiningen, who goes to live with her rich new cocoa plantation-owner husband Christopher (Heston) in the Amazon […]
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