Director Lewis Allen’s 1951 Technicolor adventure drama biopic Valentino is misleadingly billed as the life story of film legend Rudolph Valentino and stars near lookalike Anthony Dexter, who at least looks right in his film debut as Rudolph Valentino, in […]
Director Phil Karlson’s 1952 Columbia Pictures romantic adventure The Brigand is a cheap and fairly cheerful reworking of Alexandre Dumas’s story Brigand: A Romance of the Reign of Don Carlos, with Anthony Dexter in both […]
The 1955 British Oscar-winning drama The Bespoke Overcoat is an astonishingly fine, beautiful short film from producer-director Jack Clayton, based on a Nikolai Gogol tale called The Cloak, with Alfie Bass and David Kossoff perfectly […]
‘Mr Hardy told Mr Laurel to meet him at Santa Fe Station at a quarter of ten – but Mr Laurel became confused and thought he meant 9:45.’ Director Lewis R Foster’s 1929 Berth Marks […]
‘Mr Hardy had the sniffles – his carburetor hadn’t been right for days and days.’ Stan Laurel ministers to Oliver Hardy, who has got a terrible cold, but naturally he soon nearly wrecks the place, […]
It’s Bob Hope versus the Nazis in director David Butler’s amusing, little-known 1943 wartime Washington spy comedy thriller They Got Me Covered about a Gestapo espionage ring planning sabotage. It is a surprise subject for […]
Warner Bros put their big star John Garfield in the 1939 drama They Made Me a Criminal, a remake of 1933’s The Life of Jimmy Dolan, as Johnnie, a boxer on the run from the […]
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