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The 1948 Swedish film Music Is My Future [Musik I Mörker] [Music in Darkness] is the fourth film from master film-maker Ingmar Bergman. The screenplay is by Dagmar Edqvist, based on the novel by Dagmar […]
Director Ralph Thomas’s 1968 Nobody Runs Forever [The High Commissioner] stars Rod Taylor as Australian police detective Sergeant Scobie Malone, who is sent to London to investigate the dodgy death of the first wife of […]
Director Robert Parrish’s 1957 Fire Down Below is based on the novel by Max Catto and stars Robert Mitchum and Jack Lemmon as Felix and Tony, tramp boat owning adventurers falling in love with and […]
Three decades on from the story in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 classic The Shining, the kid Danny Torrance is grown up, a troubled alcoholic drifter, now played by Ewan McGregor, who gets a job at a […]
Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1956 British black and white noir crime thriller Tiger in the Smoke is based on Margery Allingham’s 1952 novel The Tiger in the Smoke, and stars Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Tony Wright, […]
Director William A Wellman’s 1954 CinemaScope and WarnerColor action adventure drama The High and the Mighty is written by Ernest K Gann and based on his bestselling novel. It won one Oscar for Best Scoring […]
Director Jean Renoir’s 1962 French wartime comedy drama The Vanishing Corporal [Le Caporal épinglé] [The Elusive Corporal] stars Jean-Pierre Cassel as a Parisian corporal, who is captured by the invading Germans and, along with two of […]