Director Tom Gries’s 1975 movie vehicle for Charles Bronson is Western murder mystery hokum based on a novel by Alistair MacLean, in which people are being mysteriously bumped off on a train with medical supplies […]
Director Robert Montgomery’s 1960 semi-documentary war movie features a solid, dignified, tightly reined-in performance from James Cagney as Fleet Admiral William F ‘Bull’ Halsey Jr, American South Pacific commander in World War Two. It is […]
Bombshell: A fascinating, ultimately sad story, hauntingly well told. Who knew it? The famous Hollywood movie star Hedy Lamarr was an under-appreciated genius inventor. Wow! Writer-director Alexandra Dean’s biographical, historical documentary tells a fascinating, moving, and ultimately sad […]
Sweet Country is a sweet racially charged Australian Western. Director Warwick Thornton’s obviously ironically named Australian Western, inspired by true events on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, stars Hamilton Morris as middle-aged Aboriginal […]
Barbara Stanwyck plays a typical Thirties wisecracking, gold-digging model girl, in her first film with frequent director Frank Capra, the romantic drama Ladies of Leisure (1930). ‘ALL DIALOG DRAMA OF NEW YORK’S NITE LIFE. Zippy, […]
The 24-year-old Barbara Stanwyck works her own miracle, credibly playing Florence Fallon, a Bible bashing minister’s daughter who loses her faith and turns con-woman, a fake evangelist who pretends to heal sick folk to make […]
‘The flaming drama of a forbidden love that wrecked an empire! ‘ ‘They found a love they dared not touch!’ Ah yes, great! Director Frank Capra’s sexy 1932 beauty-and-the-beast romantic melodrama stars Barbara Stanwyck as […]
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