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The 1959 film The Wreck of the Mary Deare is a solid adventure about mysterious nautical doings, mixing sea air with courtroom claustrophobia. Gary Cooper gives a trusty turn as the captain of a seemingly […]
Hugh Sinclair takes over the halo from George Sanders as Simon Templar in the seventh of the RKO Pictures’ The Saint series, co-written by original author Leslie Charteris and produced and filmed in the UK. […]
In this 1948 British black and white compendium movie, Quartet, esteemed author W Somerset Maugham plays host and himself introduces each of four entertaining, superbly cast short films of his own stories, with four different […]
Director Henry Hathaway’s 1956 suspense thriller is slick and enjoyable if slightly over-extended feeling at 103 minutes. Nigel Balchin adapts the novel by author Philip MacDonald, writer of the screenplays for Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) and […]
Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman put polish on the glitzy 1958 British Technicolor romantic comedy film Indiscreet. Producer-director Stanley Donen’s 1958 British-made Technicolor romantic comedy Indiscreet is glitzy fluff, filmed where it is set in London. It finds the ideal […]
Alec Guinness is on delightful form as G K Chesterton’s priest and amateur detective, who is in Rome on the trail of master crook Flambeau (Peter Finch), in the 1954 British comedy mystery thriller film […]
Director Alexander Mackendrick’s joyous, typically quirky 1951 Ealing Studios comedy stars Alec Guinness as an inventor called Sidney Stratton who discovers a miracle cloth fabric that can never get dirty or wear out. That’s the […]