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‘Michael Redgrave with an ingenious hand for disorder … Robert Morley as the intrepid arm of the law.’ Director Charles Crichton’s 1958 Law and Disorder is a smart, pacy and amusing Ealing Studios-style caper comedy, […]
Director Raymond McCarey’s 1932 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy two-reel comedy short film Scram! is cleverly written and carefully constructed, and of course expertly played, though overall it is maybe only mildly funny. However, it […]
The intelligent and gripping 1988 romantic crime thriller Tequila Sunrise is written and directed by Robert Towne (who scripted Chinatown). It boasts a good Eighties cast, with three glossy and appealing stars: Mel Gibson as […]
Director Sidney J Furie’s inventive direction and some then fresh faces (Dudley Sutton, Jess Conrad, Ronald Lacey, Tony Garnett) are the main pleasures of the interesting youth-oriented 1962 British courtroom drama The Boys, which was […]
I’m not one to judge, but the admirable and involving The Children Act (2017) has a lot going for it, not least Emma Thompson. The admirable and involving The Children Act (2017) has a lot going for […]
John Ford’s good-looking 1928 silent movie Hangman’s House is a romantic drama set in County Wicklow, Ireland. Based on a novel by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne, it is adapted by Philip Klein with scenarios by Marion Orth and with inter-titles written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan. […]
The success of their sleeper hit Ah Wilderness! (1935) prompted MGM to re-use many of the cast in A Family Affair (1937), the first in its Andy Hardy series (1937-1946), including Lionel Barrymore, Spring Byington, Mickey Rooney, Eric […]