Director Richard A Colla’s rumbustious 1972 crime action comedy Fuzz is based on a novel by Evan Hunter (writing as Ed McBain) and stars Burt Reynolds, Jack Weston, Tom Skerritt, Yul Brynner and Raquel Welch. As Boston […]
Co-writer/director Roy Boulting’s 1956 adventure thriller Run for the Sun is the third version of Richard Connell’s prize-winning short story The Most Dangerous Game. Though it is one of the most anthologised stories of all time […]
Based on a novel by Sylvia Tate, director Norman Taurog’s 1957 crime comedy The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown is an interesting but tasteless comedy version of No Orchids for Miss Blandish, in which Jane Russell plays […]
Director Raoul Walsh’s 1956 CinemaScope and Deluxe Color drama The Revolt of Mamie Stover is based on the novel by William Bradford Huie and stars Jane Russell as the titular Mamie Stover, a busty young […]
The estimable Virna Lisi gives an entertaining turn as Milena Zulian to give a lift to director Pietro Germi’s often unsubtle and overacted but sometimes sharp and amusing Italian La Ronde-style sex farce The Birds, […]
Director Claude Lelouch’s 1966 A Man and a Woman [Un Homme et une Femme] is the quintessential French Sixties chocolate box movie, starring Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant as screenwriter Anne Gauthier (Aimée) and sports-car […]
Made in lurid Technicolor and wholly unsuitable widescreen, director Nicholas Ray’s 1955 Hot Blood is totally camp, kitsch, trashy and, quite honestly, just plain bad. But it is nevertheless quite a lot of fun to […]
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