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The conscientious 1956 British thriller film Port of Escape stars wife and husband team Googie Withers and John McCallum, along with Bill Kerr as a psychotic sailor, in a killer at large tale. Director Tony […]
American star Denzel Washington comes to the UK to play a working-class soldier from an inner London council estate in Brixton, who, on his return from the Falklands War, finds that nobody wants to give […]
Despite the special cast, director Guy Hamilton’s 1959 black and white comedy drama The Devil’s Disciple is an only so-so film of George Bernard Shaw’s intriguing play about Dick Dudgeon (Kirk Douglas), the son of […]
Director Don Sharp’s excellent 1974 British crime action thriller Callan [The Neutralizer] is an imaginatively developed and extended version of the opening programme of Edward Woodward’s popular TV show from 1967, about a lonely, ruthless […]
The Belgian martial artist Jean-Claude Van Damme gained wide movie stardom with the predictable but passable 1989 American martial arts action thriller film Kickboxer. ‘An Ancient Sport Becomes A Deadly Game.’ Directors Mark DiSalle and David […]
The 1979 boxing movie sequel Rocky II provides another fistful of dollars for Sylvester Stallone as writer, director and star of this virtual reprise of the original 1976 Rocky. In this one, the unemployed, inarticulate, […]
Director Clive Donner’s 1978 fourth movie version of The Thief of Baghdad is good looking and very acceptable, enlivened with some amusing performances, particularly from Peter Ustinov. It is an amiable retelling of the classic […]