Director Giancarlo Santi’s 1972 exciting, typically violent Spaghetti Western Il Grande Duello [The Big Showdown] [The Grand Duel] stars Lee Van Cleef as veteran gunfighter Sheriff Clayton, who takes a young hotshot called Philip Vermeer […]
Jean-Louis Trintignant stars as a mute in Sergio Corbucci’s brilliant 1968 revisionist Spaghetti Western Il Grande Silenzio – a suppressed masterpiece. Jean-Louis Trintignant stars as a mute in Sergio Corbucci’s brilliant 1968 revisionist Spaghetti Western […]
Director Sergio Corbucci’s 1968 A Professional Gun [Il Mercenario] [The Mercenary] is a notable spaghetti Western, with strong performances from Jack Palance and Franco Nero (as Ricciolo ‘Curly’ and Sergei Kowalski the Polish, the rival […]
Director Sidney Lumet’s 1982 hit Deathtrap is a hugely enjoyable film version of Ira Levin’s stage thriller, with Michael Caine as the has-been Broadway playwright Sidney Bruhl suffering from writer’s block who conceives one of his […]
The 1972 drama Child’s Play is the film version of a Broadway play written by Robert Marasco about rivalry and violence in an exclusive Catholic boys’ school. It is a rare misfire from director Sidney […]
Director Hobart Henley’s 1930 mob thriller Roadhouse Nights is a cult item as it is loosely based on Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 classic gangster novel Red Harvest, which is also the basis for numerous films, including […]
‘When you talk to me, take that toothpick out of your mouth’ – The Kid. The young Gary Cooper stars as The Kid, a fair worker shooting gallery showman, who falls for a gangster’s daughter Nan […]
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