In his first film since he was paralysed in real life in a horse-riding fall, poor Christopher Reeve does sterling work as Jason Kemp, the quadriplegic wheelchair-bound accident victim who alleviates his boredom by spying […]
After hitting the big time with Star Wars, Harrison Ford went into something completely different – and surely regretted it. He plays – forlornly – David, an American bomber pilot stationed in England who meets […]
A quarrelling, unfaithful couple on holiday to try to make their relationship all right again, a mysterious creepy stranger, a thriller set in the Italian countryside. What’s not to like? Self-satisfied, duck out of water […]
Writer Roy Minton’s scalding 1977 TV play Scum about life in a boys’ prison for juvenile offenders was made by the BBC but then banned by them, so its director Alan Clarke made this controversial 1979 […]
Writer-director Montgomery Tully’s 1949 British drama Boys in Brown is a sincere though none too realistic British Borstal reform-school melodrama, with gem-shop raider Jackie Knowles (Richard Attenborough), Bill Foster (Jimmy Hanley), Alf ‘Sparrow’ Thompson (Michael […]
Writer-producer-director Val Guest’s 1962 British black and white noir-style crime film Jigsaw is a first-class old-fashioned whodunit with Jack Warner taking a busman’s holiday from his TV role as PC George Dixon in Dixon of Dock Green […]
Director Burt Kennedy’s 1971 Hannie Caulder is an admirably strange if nasty-toned Anglo-Spanish spaghetti Western, made in Spain but set in Mexico, where Hannie (Raquel Welch) enlists the help of drifting bounty hunter Tom Price […]
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