Director Harald Reinl’s 1961 black-and-white crime thriller The Return of Dr Mabuse [Im Stahlnetz des Dr Mabuse], made in West Berlin, follows Fritz Lang’s The 1,000 Eyes of Dr Mabuse [Die 1000 Augen des Dr Mabuse] (1960) as the […]
Writer-producer-director Michael Carreras’s preposterous but fairly amusing 1968 British Hammer Films fantasy adventure film is based on Dennis Wheatley’s 1938 novel Uncharted Seas. Eric Porter stars as Captain Lansen, whose dilapidated tramp steamer boat, packed with a full […]
Co-writer/ director Euzhan Palcy (born on 13 January 1958 in Martinique, France) assembles an outstanding cast for her often moving, intelligent and powerful 1989 drama, based on a novel by André P Brink. Donald Sutherland […]
Director Ralph Nelson’s 1975 British movie stars Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine, who are off their usual beat in this largely creaky and unpersuasive but commendably well-meaning and action-packed political thriller, set in East Africa. […]
Director Lennart Ruff’s 2018 Sci-Fi thriller The Titan is interesting, intriguing, a little bit different and really rather well done. The screenplay by Max Hurwitz and story by Arash Amel are intelligent and literate. The premise, characters and dialogue are all quite strong, involving […]
Director Edward Ludwig’s 1940 adventure movie Swiss Family Robinson stars Thomas Mitchell, who is excellent as William Robinson, the patriarch of the Robinson family, shipwrecked on their way to Australia and stranded on a desert […]
Director Ralph Thomas’s fine, ambitious 1958 British version of A Tale of Two Cities is the sixth film version of the Charles Dickens tale of heroics and romance during the French Revolution, carefully adapted by T […]
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