Director Jonathan Lynn’s 1985 black-comedy movie Clue is surely the first film to be based on a board game, which of course means trouble ahead as there is no story to base the movie on, […]
Director Hugh Wilson’s 1987 Burglar wastes Whoopi Goldberg as Bernice ‘Bernie’ Rhodenbarr, a cat burglar and bookstore owner, wanted for a murder that she has only witnessed. The dead body is found in a house […]
Vincente Minnelli’s 1960 film Home from the Hill is a satisfying chunk of American Southern romantic drama with Robert Mitchum and Eleanor Parker. Director Vincente Minnelli’s 1960 American Metrocolor CinemaScope drama film Home from the […]
Director Henry Hathaway’s strongly cast but saddle-sore 1968 Western gets a big lift from the eminently watchable, cucumber-cool performances of Dean Martin as gambler Van Morgan and Mitchum as a mysterious gun-carrying minister, the Rev Jonathan […]
Director Mervyn LeRoy’s justly famous, hard-hitting 1933 Warner Bros’ crusading drama I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang stars Paul Muni as James Allen, an innocent man turned criminal who goes on the run […]
Director Michael Curtiz’s excellent, tough-edged, vintage 1933 prison escape drama 20,000 Years in Sing Sing sees Spencer Tracy and Bette Davis crackle in their only ever screen pairing. Tracy was at Fox and then MGM and […]
John Ford was ailing and became sick while directing this 1964 autobiographical portrait of the young life of the playwright and writer Sean O’Casey (Rod Taylor, though he bears no resemblance to him) in Ireland, so Jack […]
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