Director John Frankenheimer’s remarkable 1973 The Iceman Cometh, made for The American Film Theatre, is an extremely satisfactory filmed-theatre version of Eugene O’Neill’s classic drama set in a 1912 waterfront bar. Lee Marvin, having a […]
The 1973 film Executive Action is a brilliant political thriller constructing a conspiracy theory around President Kennedy’s assassination. Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan play the leaders of a right-wing plot to use Lee Harvey Oswald as […]
Director Howard Higgin’s 1929 Pre-Code love triangle crime melodrama The Racketeer (known as Love’s Conquest in the UK, where it was banned by the British Board of Film Censors and only passed in 1930 after being cut by seven minutes) tells the tale of criminals […]
Spencer Tracy stars as a New York doctor called Karl Decker who finds it isn’t love after all when he takes this troubled society woman Georgi Gragore (Hedy Lamarr) as his wife, in director W S […]
Director Marion Gering’s 1931 I Take This Woman stars the alluring team of Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard in this shaky romantic drama, based on Mary Roberts Rinehart’s novel Lost Ecstasy. Cooper stars as a cowboy […]
Director Marion Gering’s 1937 Thunder in the City brought Edward G Robinson to Britain for this dated crime comedy drama about a British aristocrat, The Duke (Nigel Bruce), who inveigles a pushy American business publicist, Dan Armstrong (Robinson), […]
Federico Fellini’s intriguing, teasing and provocative 1978 Italian satirical film Orchestra Rehearsal [Prova d’orchestra] follows the story of an Italian orchestra as the members assemble for a rehearsal in a run-down auditorium converted from an ancient chapel now […]
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