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Writer-director Irwin Winkler’s 1991 drama is an interesting and sincere but mild drama of the Hollywood blacklist intrigues. It is an intelligently written reminder of some uncomfortable facts of Hollywood’s – and America’s – past, […]
Tom Hanks’s sterling performance as Cold War-era American lawyer James B Donovan, who is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court so American justice can be seen to be being done, is in many […]
Sidney Lumet’s 1966 spy thriller film The Deadly Affair, adapted from John le Carré’s Call for the Dead, is chilling and riveting. James Mason plays le Carré’s famous British secret agent George Smiley, here called […]
Martin Ritt’s scintillating 1965 British spy film The Spy Who Came In from the Cold is based on the 1963 novel by John le Carré, and stars Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Oskar Werner. Director Martin Ritt’s scintillating 1965 […]
Jack Arnold’s delightful, often hilarious British 1959 satirical comedy film The Mouse That Roared showcases three tailor-made roles for Peter Sellers. Director Jack Arnold’s delightful, often hilarious British 1959 satirical comedy film The Mouse That […]
The most heroic golden boys of their generations, Robert Redford and Brad Pitt, obviously enjoyed working together when they first teamed when Redford starred Pitt in his 1992 fly-fishing movie, A River Runs Through It. […]
‘You’re next, you’re next!’ The 1956 American sci-fi horror film Invasion of the Body Snatchers is produced by socially conscious Walter Wanger, and stars Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter. It is shot in black and […]