Director Robert Wise’s 1956 Western Tribute to a Bad Man stars James Cagney, who replaces the originally cast Spencer Tracy (who walked out after falling out with director Wise) as Jeremy Rodock, a vicious horse […]
Director Bob Clark’s 1981 drama Tribute stars Jack Lemmon, who memorably records on film his superlative, poignant Broadway performance as joking New York theatre publicist Scottie Templeton, who learns that he is afflicted by terminal […]
The 1966 movie Mister Buddwing stars James Garner as a man who comes round on a park seat in New York’s Central Park and cannot remember who he is. Garner recalled: ‘Worst picture I ever […]
Jean Anouilh’s French farce Waltz of the Toreadors is filmed in Britain in 1962 by director John Guillermin as a vehicle for Peter Sellers playing a lecherous old general, Gen Leo Fitzjohn, who retires to his Sussex […]
Director Ted Kotcheff’s modest but diverting enough 1965 drama Life at the Top is the soap-opera-style sequel to Room at the Top (1959) that, even while it entertains, misses the quality and bitter taste of the […]
Director Jocelyn Moorhouse’s 1995 American drama How to Make an American Quilt is based on the 1991 novel by Whitney Otto, with a screenplay by Jane Anderson, and stars Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan and Alfre Woodard. It was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for […]
The acerbically witty 1967 comedy film Divorce American Style finds Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds well paired as a warring married couple. Norman Lear was an Oscar nominee for his screenplay. Director Bud Yorkin’s […]
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