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Director Hank McCune’s Wetbacks (1956) stars Lloyd Bridges, Nancy Gates and Barton MacLane, but the really good news is that it is written by Edward D Wood Jr (hiding his light under a bushel as […]
Goodbye Gemini (1970) ended up listed as a video nasty. Judy Geeson and Martin Potter play Chelsea teenage sister and brother twins up to their pretty necks in a pretty offensive plot. Director Alan Gibson’s […]
Director Mervyn LeRoy’s justly famous, hard-hitting 1933 Warner Bros’ crusading drama I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang stars Paul Muni as James Allen, an innocent man turned criminal who goes on the run […]
Hedy Lamarr stars as a beautiful Communist Moscow train driver, who is romanced by American reporter Clark Gable in Soviet Moscow, in MGM’s 1940 film Comrade X. This is much pleasure, as well as quite […]
Director Arthur Penn’s enjoyable 1986 thriller Dead of Winter stars Mary Steenburgen (in one of three roles) as a struggling actress called Katie McGovern, who is lured by the promise of an audition and possible work […]
Oh doctor, I’m in trouble… Blake Edwards’s 1972 crime thriller The Carey Treatment got the MGM studio treatment. It was heavily cut and re-edited in post production, infuriating the director, who sued. Director Blake Edwards’s […]
Writer-director Ken Loach’s dark and complex 1979 costume adventure drama is based on Leon Garfield’s novel about the adventures of a roguish 18th-century French sailor and thief called Black Jack (Jean Franval) in Yorkshire who […]