Director Michael Curtiz’s impeccably presented, impressively played and well scripted 1937 romantic crime drama Stolen Holiday is based on a fictionalised version of the exploits of real-life Russian Jewish financier and conman Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky. […]
Director Alain Resnais’s arty 1974 film Stavisky looks great and there is good playing all round from a strong cast, with the stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Charles Boyer well used. But it is more successful […]
Director Michael Curtiz’s acceptable, simple-viewing 1954 comedy Western The Boy from Oklahoma stars Will Rogers Jr, who pleasantly takes over the easy-going, good-natured persona of his father as Tom Brewster, a correspondence-school law student who rides […]
Director Edwin L Marin’s 1951 Sugarfoot is a grippingly told, action-packed Technicolor Western, set down Arizona way, and starring Randolph Scott, Raymond Massey and Adele Jergens. Fast moving and sure footed, it is written by Russell S Hughes (adaptation) from the novel […]
Sweet silent comedy short film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy before their official billing as the duo Laurel and Hardy, and James Finlayson. Directors Fred Guiol and Leo McCarey and producer Hal Roach’s sweet 1927 […]
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are on good form in director Leo McCarey’s bizarre and amusing 1929 20-minute two-reel farcical comedy Wrong Again, written by H M Walker (titles), based on a story by Lewis R […]
Director Byron Haskin’s 1958 From the Earth to the Moon is a pathetic attempt to film the Jules Verne sci-fi fantasy adventure novels De la Terre à la Lune (1865) and Autour de la Lune […]
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