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A Stranger works to redeem the inhabitants of a London boarding house, in Austrian director Berthold Viertel’s fascinating 1935 British drama film The Passing of the Third Floor Back, starring Conrad Veidt, Anna Lee, Rene […]
Director Rod Daniel’s 1991 The Super is a hesitant comedy with a good premise, some solid laughs and a fine Joe Pesci performance as an unscrupulous New York slum landlord, Louie Kritski, who is ordered […]
The 1953 drama The Brute [El Bruto] was filmed fast by Luis Buñuel in Mexico, with intriguing performances and a fiery mood. Buñuel’s complex, heated, highly charged tale is of a none-too-intelligent meat-packing giant, Pedro […]
The 1932 short film The Chimp is a delightfully funny three-reeler from Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, who hilariously wreck the circus and share a bed with Ethel the gorilla. ‘Mr Hardy’s aesthetic nature thrilled […]
Laurel and Hardy’s last two-reeler silent movie comedy short Angora Love (1929) is fast and funny, with Ollie bathing the smelly goat as the highlight. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy upset their suspicious landlord (Edgar Kennedy) […]
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy evict their dog, Laughing Gravy, when their mean, dog-hating landlord (Charlie Hall) finds him and then spend the rest of the freezing night looking for him. The boys come up with […]
Co-writer/ director David Swift’s 1963 vehicle for Jack Lemmon is a ridiculously silly Swinging Sixties adult sex comedy about a couple, Robin Austin (Carol Lynley) and Dave Manning (Dean Jones), deciding to move in together to […]