Ginger Rogers stars as an American defence plant worker who pools her wages and shares a house with three other wives while her husband (Robert Ryan) is away fighting in the Second World War, in […]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder produced, edited and appears (as Wittowski) in director Ulli Lommel’s gruesome and eerie but riveting and revealing 1973 German horror film Tenderness of the Wolves (Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe), a version of […]
Striptease queen Gypsy Rose Lee tried her hand at writing with the 1941 burlesque mystery novel The G-String Murders, filmed as the 1943 musical comedy-mystery movie Lady of Burlesque, starring Barbara Stanwyck as stripper Dixie […]
Writer-director Volker Schlöndorff’s powerful and relevant 1966 Young Törless [Der Junge Törless] is notable as this important German film-maker’s first feature. It is his forceful, assured, well-acted version of the classic Robert Musil parable novel […]
A well-cast Robert Donat gives a strong and fervent performance as the British premier William Pitt the Younger, who was only 24 when he became first minister in 1783 as England’s youngest Prime Minister. It […]
Director John Ford’s 1939 black and white historical drama Young Mr Lincoln stars the young Henry Fonda, who gives a good account of himself in one of his most famous roles as baby Abe Lincoln. It […]
Director Irving Cummings’s entertaining 1941 Western Belle Starr casts Gene Tierney as the most wanted woman gunslinger in the wild West in this 20th Century Fox studio Western, set at the end of the Civil […]
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