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Gregory Peck stars as a young writer who rescues a countess (Ava Gardner) from gambling but gets the disease himself as a compulsive gambler, in The Great Sinner (1949). Unfortunately director Robert Siodmak’s fascinating […]
Director Sydney Pollack’s good-looking but disappointing 1990 romantic drama stars Robert Redford as card-playing gambler Jack Weil, who romances icy Nordic beauty Bobby Duran (Lena Olin), who is married to fiery Cuban aristocrat, Arturo Duran […]
Director Robert Altman’s fine, funny and revealing 1974 comedy character drama stars the very much on-form Elliott Gould and George Segal as wisecracking free spirit Charlie Waters and down on his luck gambler Bill Denny, who are […]
The 31-year-old writer-director Jacques Demy’s excellent 1962 French New Wave movie is his second feature after his hit debut with Lola (1961). Bay of Angels boasts a spellbinding performance by a startlingly blonde Jeanne Moreau as Jackie […]
Esteemed horror-film expert Val Lewton produces director Hugo Fregonese’s highly intriguing 1951 B-movie Western, bringing his characteristic imaginative touch of claustrophobic atmosphere. That lifts the level of an unremarkable tale about settlers forced to defend their town […]
Howard Hawks directs John Wayne and Robert Mitchum in this big Western film El Dorado late in all their careers in 1966. The 58-year-old Duke stars as the once-ace gunman Cole Thornton with a paralysed […]
Otto Preminger’s popular and enjoyable 1954 classic Western film River of No Return has the huge advantage of starring Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe, who strike quite a few sparks. Director Otto Preminger’s popular and […]