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Director Michael Lehmann’s 1991 spoof adventure caper is game for a laugh but alas it is all too erratic and unfocused to provide the big guffaws and chortles you’d expect. Catch the Hawk, they advertised, […]
Producer-director Otto Preminger’s superb 1962 political thriller boasts a wonderful array of old Sixties star character actors doing their unique and eccentric things. Despite all the valiant efforts of Henry Fonda as Robert Leffingwell, Walter Pidgeon […]
Hammer Films’ 1953 British crime mystery thriller film The Saint’s Return is a very watchable revival, with Louis Hayward cast once again after a 15-year gap as Simon Templar. ‘When he hits London…blondes…bullets…and blackmail…set him […]
The 1960 Anglo-French horror movie The Hands of Orlac is an intriguing third film of the famous Maurice Renard novel. Co-writer/director Edmond T Gréville’s 1960 Anglo-French horror movie The Hands of Orlac is an intriguing […]
The 1975 mystery thriller film The Drowning Pool stars Paul Newman, reprising his role as Ross MacDonald’s cynical private eye Lew Harper in the sequel to his 1966 hit Harper [The Moving Target]. Director Stuart […]
Take a Walken on the Wild Side. Director Donald Cammell’s bizarre, disturbing, challenging last film from 1995, restored as the ‘director’s cut’ in 2000 with the help of Frank Mazzola, the original film editor, gets […]
Time to Kill (1942) is the first screen adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s novel The High Window and the final Michael Shayne film starring Lloyd Nolan made at Fox, which then closed down their popular B-movie […]