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‘A Double Life… A Double Love!’ Vera Ralston can’t make up her mind which brother she loves, in the 1947 film noir crime drama The Flame. Producer-director John H Auer’s 1947 Republic Pictures black and […]
‘Models were the bait for BLACKMAIL!’ Director John Lemont’s 1960 British crime thriller The Shakedown stars Terence Morgan, Hazel Court, Donald Pleasence, Bill Owen, Robert Beatty, and Harry H Corbett. Hazel Court plays a pretty […]
Director Claude Chabrol’s fascinating 1971 French murder-mystery film Ten Days’ Wonder [La Décade prodigieuse] stars Orson Welles, Marlène Jobert, Anthony Perkins, and Michel Piccoli. Intriguing as it always is, Chabrol defined it as a ‘failed film’ […]
Director Lesley Selander’s 1947 Republic Pictures American black and white film noir crime thriller Blackmail stars William Marshall, Adele Mara and Ricardo Cortez. It proved the first and last of the Daniel J Turner Detective […]
‘Piquant situations, intriguing scenes, sinister plots and delicious humour make STORMY WEATHER (1935) an Entertainment Delight.’ Director Tom Walls’s 1935 British black and white farcical comedy Stormy Weather is based on an original screenplay by […]
‘The sinister threat of a jealousy maddened lover – a whispered warning – a scream! And next morning the world asks – WHO KILLED THE CANARY!!!’ Director Malcolm St Clair’s 1929 Paramount Pictures black and […]
Director Tom Walls’s 1932 British black and white comedy A Night Like This is an extremely funny old-style farce, based on a play by Ben Travers, concerning a group of gamblers and the policeman who […]