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Writer-director Richard Brooks’s hard-hitting Western saga 1956 The Last Hunt stars Robert Taylor, cast effectively against type, as the sadistic buffalo-killer Charles ‘Charley’ Gilson in 1883 South Dakota. Stewart Granger plays his conscience-riddled buffalo hunter partner […]
Racial tensions in South Africa explode into violence as black preacher the Reverend Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee)’s son kills white landowner James Jarvis (Charles Carson)’s boy, in director Zoltan Korda’s distinguished 1952 British drama Cry, […]
Director Marc Allégret’s 1955 black and white drama Lady Chatterley’s Lover [L’Amant de Lady Chatterley] is an early French adaptation of the once scandalous D H Lawrence novel about a high-born English lady, Lady Constance […]
Louis Hayward, who had been The Man in the Iron Mask (that is Prince Philippe of Gascony, the nice twin brother of despotic French King Louis XIV) in the 1939 film, this time stars as […]
‘THE TEEN-AGE DATE IN LOVERS’ LANE THEY’LL NEVER LET HER FORGET!’ Director Frank Tuttle’s 1956 film noir A Cry in the Night stars Raymond Burr, who is typecast again as a creepy, mother-fixated heavy and […]
‘He dared to love a cannibal princess!’ Director Allan Dwan’s colourful 1958 action adventure drama Enchanted Island is a cheap and none too cheerful version of Herman Melville’s less famous novel Typee, though it is […]
Director J Lee Thompson’s promising but clunky 1967 occult crime horror mystery thriller Eye of the Devil stars David Niven, who looks lost as Philippe de Montfaucon, the wine-growing French marquis who has to be […]