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The Jaws writer Peter Benchley adapts his own novel and comes back together with the Jaws producers Richard D Zanuck and David Brown for a movie they would no doubt rather forget. Probably Michael Caine isn’t too […]
This early Federico Fellini 1952 movie, his first as writer and sole director (after jointly filming 1951’s Lights of Variety), is an extremely eye-catching and highly diverting triumph. It focuses on a Rome honeymooning couple, Wanda […]
Director John S Robertson’s soapy 1929 silent movie drama, based on Adela Rogers St Johns’s 1928 romantic novel, is remembered, if at all, really only because it stars Greta Garbo. But that is enough! Garbo […]
Producer-director Herbert Ross’s 1976 comedy thriller is an awkwardly realised but enjoyable pastiche of a Sherlock Holmes adventure. An oddly cast Robert Duvall struggles a bit as a married Dr John H Watson, who sets […]
Producer-director Joseph Sargent’s 1987 fourth and final part of the shark saga Jaws: The Revenge has only its star Lorraine Gary as Ellen Brody, widow of Roy Scheider’s character police chief Brody, surviving from the first […]
Richard Widmark is absurdly cast as Rolfe, a Viking adventurer, and Sidney Poitier not much better as Prince Aly Mansuh, leader of the Moors, who come to blows over the legendary Golden Bell, made of pure […]
All should be plain sailing with director Ken Annakin’s 1956 British screen version of Jerome K Jerome’s misadventures of three less than eminent Victorians, Harris, George and Jimmy (Jimmy Edwards, Laurence Harvey and David Tomlinson), […]