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Writer-director Alexander Ramati’s 1985 The Assisi Underground is a well-meaning, costly, but largely ineptly told wartime adventure about Catholic monks in Assisi (Perugia, Umbria, Italy) hiding Italian Jewish refugees from the Nazis in 1943 and […]
Director Andrew V McLaglen’s 1968 The Devil’s Brigade is an ordinary and overlong but acceptable World War Two wartime action drama in the wake of The Dirty Dozen, though based on real life as recounted […]
‘Mother of God: I’ve killed a nun!’ Catholic nuns hide refugee Jewish children from the Nazis in World War Two wartime northern Italy, then risk their lives to help them escape to Palestine, in the […]
Director Norman Z McLeod’s 1954 comedy Casanova’s Big Night stars Bob Hope, who is on tip-top form in his accustomed persona of cowardly braggard, in this case a tailor’s apprentice, Pippo Popolino, pretending to be […]
‘The important thing is true love.’ Mmm… quite. Director Norman Jewison’s utterly sweet 1994 old-style romantic comedy Only You sets out to prove its own adage as hopeless romantic Faith Corvatch (Marisa Tomei) sets off […]
Charles Dance steals the 1987 show Good Morning Babylon as movie pioneer director D W Griffith in a charming homage to silent film-making from Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani, the Italian heavyweight directors responsible for […]
Marcello Mastroianni’s certainly fine as Matteo Scuro, a retired old Sicilian bureaucrat who travels to mainland Italy to check what’s happened to his five kids, and is lied to by them to conceal the trouble […]