Director Alex Cox’s 1987 political adventure Walker is about a real-life 1850s American mercenary leader called William Walker (Ed Harris) who is funded to invade Nicaragua, join up with the liberal forces and defeat the corrupt […]
Director Francis D Lyon’s sturdy 1957 American Western film for Allied Artists, The Oklahoman, stars Joel McCrea, Barbara Hale and Brad Dexter. It is attractively shot in CinemaScope and DeLuxe colour by Carl E Guthrie. […]
I’m going to make this a personal reaction as I think the 2019 chiller Glass is a Marmite movie. You like it or you don’t. That’s it. Either reaction is valid and reasonable. I really […]
Director Byron Haskin’s 1956 Technicolor and Cinemascope Western film The First Texan stars Joel McCrea, who gives a resolute performance, ageing effectively from callow youth to canny Texas president, in this entertaining biopic of East […]
Director Archie Mayo’s 1933 Warner Bros black and white romantic drama The Life of Jimmy Dolan [The Kid’s Last Fight in GB] stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr, who comes out on fighting form and gives an […]
A pleasant cast assembles for director Lloyd Bacon’s 1939 Espionage Agent, a once timely but now just low-voltage-seeming black and white paranoia espionage suspense thriller about Nazi spy rings taking over in the American heartlands […]
Warner Brothers take on the Hun in director Anatole Litvak’s 1939 American spy political thriller film Confessions of a Nazi Spy, a timely exposé of Nazis at work in America just before the Second World […]
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