Director Terence Young’s busy and capably handled but cardboard 1957 action adventure Action of the Tiger stars Van Johnson as Carson, a manly American contraband runner and mercenary hired by glamorous blonde French woman Tracy […]
Director Cyril Frankel’s 1961 On the Fiddle [Operation Snafu] is an enjoyably fun and fairly smart British black and white World War Two wartime farce, made out of its time at the start of the Sixties. […]
You can try to explain the New Killer, the Big Secret, and every other Big Twist in the 2019 horror thriller sequel Happy Death Day 2U, but you can’t. The elaborate plot simply makes no […]
Likeable young stars Tom Berenger (as Butch Cassidy) and William Katt (as the Sundance Kid) are cast as near lookalikes for their predecessors Paul Newman and Robert Redford in director Richard Lester’s 1979 Butch and […]
With the world at his feet after the brilliant The Last Picture Show, What’s Up Doc? and Paper Moon, writer-producer-director Peter Bogdanovich wanted to pay homage to the Thirties Hollywood heyday musical, and Fred Astaire […]
Director Alfred L Werker’s 1955 Western for Allied Artists Pictures, At Gunpoint [Gunpoint], stars Fred MacMurray and Dorothy Malone, who give strong, intense portrayals. This handsomely mounted Western boasts a well-trodden plot about an upright, peaceful […]
Director John Guillermin’s fascinating 1964 African-set adventure movie Guns at Batasi, with a theme about the passing of British colonialism, is greatly invigorated by stiff-lipped performances by Richard Attenborough, Flora Robson, Jack Hawkins and Cecil […]
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