Director Charles Rogers’s hilarious 1935 slapstick comedy short film Tit for Tat is Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s only sequel, a continuation of 1934’s popular Them Thar Hills. This time Stan and Ollie open an […]
Director Charles H Rogers [Charley Rogers]’s excellent, first rate 1934 short film Them Thar Hills stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy on around their best form, with a fine support cast to back them. The […]
Writer-director Barry Jenkins’s drama If Beale Street Could Talk is based on James Baldwin’s novel about the newly engaged young Harlem woman Tish Rivers (KiKi Layne), who tries to prove her jailed fiancé Fonny (Stephan […]
Director Giorgio Ferroni [Richard McNamara as English language director]’s 1964 The Colossus of Rome [Il Colosso di Roma] [Hero of Rome] [Arm of Fire] stars Gordon Scott as Mucius, Gabriella Pallotta as Clelia, Massimo Serato […]
Director Penrose [Pen] Tennyson’s 1939 black and white British movie There Ain’t No Justice is a bright and flavoursome, if minor Ealing Studios sporting drama, with a punchy, appealing performance from Jimmy Hanley as Tommy […]
Lea Massari is know for Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura (1960) and Louis Malle’s Souffle au Coeur (1971) but her career also includes Sergio Leone’s debut The Colossus of Rhodes [Il Colosso di Rodi] (1961). Co-writer/ director Sergio Leone’s 1961 Italian sword and sandal film The […]
Jessie Matthews’s first major film roles were in Out of the Blue (1931) and then two films directed by Albert de Courville, The Midshipmaid (1932) and There Goes the Bride (1932), a British screwball black and white romantic musical comedy hit, also […]
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