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It was a comedy? No, I didn’t think so! Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in director Metin Hüseyin‘s 2000 It Was an Accident as Nicky Burkett, who comes out of jail after four years and returns to Walthamstow, London, to find […]
Bill Travers stars in director Frank Launder’s 1959 British comedy The Bridal Path as rough-and-ready young Scottish islander Ewan McEwan, who heads off to the mainland to find a perfect bride, but along the bridal path […]
Director Anthony Mann’s 1956 The Last Frontier [Savage Wilderness] is a slightly below-par, rather predictable Western from director Mann and writers Philip Yordan and Russell S Hughes, all of whom could be brilliant on a […]
Director Frank Tuttle’s 1955 thriller Hell on Frisco Bay tells the hard-boiled police story of ex-cop Steve Rollins (Alan Ladd), framed for manslaughter, who is released on parole after five years in prison and wants […]
Director Henry King’s 1958 revenge and redemption Western The Bravados stars Gregory Peck as grimly determined Jim Douglass, who sets out to find the escaped bad guys – four deadly in-laws – he thinks have […]
Director J Lee Thompson’s 1954 The Good Companions is an ideal Fifties film version of J B Priestley’s funny novel and play about a concert party on tour. Shot in Technicolor and CinemaScope, it stars Eric […]
‘This is the story of…The Dreamers and The Schemers…The Hustlers and The Hopefuls…The Free-loaders and The Phonies…The Fakers and The Famous…All Fighting for the Highest Possible Award!!’ Director Russell Rouse’s 1966 backstage story movie The […]