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Director Fielder Cook’s 1966 A Big Hand for the Little Lady [Big Deal at Dodge City] is based on the 1962 NBC TV play Big Deal at Laredo by Sidney Carroll, and stars Henry Fonda, […]
Director A Edward Sutherland’s 1936 comedy Poppy finds W C Fields on hilarious form repeating his 1925 filming of his stage hit Sally of the Sawdust as carnival medicine salesman conman Professor Eustace McGargle. He […]
Director Joseph Anthony’s 1956 Technicolor drama The Rainmaker provides an outstanding showcase for two great stars in Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn in this conscientious, well-crafted and appealing film of N Richard Nash’s Broadway play. […]
In 1931 the young Carole Lombard was teamed with William Powell in directors Richard Wallace and Edward Goodman’s Man of the World. And Powell and Lombard form a most alluring star team in Herman J Mankiewicz’s surprisingly mundane, and […]
‘I called up Orson Welles who was in Rome and said: Hey, what do you think of this title, Paper Moon. There was a long pause and he says: That title is so good you […]
Paul Schrader’s 1997 extraordinary black comedy drama film Touch stars Christopher Walken as a conman who sees a new way of making money when he hears of a young former Franciscan monk (Skeet Ulrich), whose […]
In director Jonathan Kaplan’s excellently acted, moving and harrowing 1999 movie, lifelong American graduate friends Alice Marano (Claire Danes) and Darlene Davis (Kate Beckinsale) are in deep and desperate trouble when they’re arrested for smuggling […]