The 1974 film Mr Majestyk is one of Charles Bronson’s most effective action thrillers thanks to Richard Fleischer’s buzzing direction and Elmore Leonard’s hard-nosed original screenplay. The 1974 film Mr Majestyk is one of Charles […]
Director Stuart Rosenberg’s honourable 1976 wartime drama Voyage of the Damned was nominated for three Oscars: Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Lee Grant), Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Steve Shagan […]
Director Herbert Ross’s 1982 I Ought to Be in Pictures is a minor Neil Simon comedy drama from Walter Matthau’s latter period of decline, but it is still a fairly pleasing picture. Dinah Manoff tries […]
Hamfisted Harold Lloyd stars in directors Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor’s 1925 The Freshman, a happy Twenties college comedy, which was a burgeoning genre at the time. Lloyd plays clumsy college boy Harold ‘Speedy’ Lamb, […]
Director J Lee Thompson’s 1980 Charles Bronson vehicle Caboblanco [Cabo Blanco] is a faintly absurd, ineptly made romantic adventure thriller, remotely based on Casablanca apparently, but without properly understanding its appeal. One-time Nazis, fleeing post-World […]
The MGM studio assigned musicals specialist Vincente Minnelli to Cabin in the Sky, the 1943 film of the then rare all-black cast musical, retelling the Faust legend, in which God (Kenneth Spencer as The General […]
Director Henry King’s 1955 DeLuxe colour and widescreen adventure Untamed is a busy, complex, handsome-looking, well-done African epic, in which Tyrone Power stars as Boer leader Paul Van Riebeck, who romances impetuous colleen Katie O’Neill […]
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