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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 […]
Director Alf Sjöberg’s 1951 Swedish classic Miss Julie (Fröken Julie) is a masterly reworking for cinema of August Strindberg’s world renowned play, in which the moneyed Miss Julie (Anita Björk) plays with her man-servant Jean […]
Director Luis Buñuel’s 1952 Mexican movie El (aka This Strange Passion, or Torments) stars Arturo de Córdova as the middle-aged, wealthy, suave and uptight Francisco Galván de Montemayor, who is consumed with paranoid, raging jealousy after […]
‘Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy have many ups and downs. – Mr Hardy takes charge of the upping and Mr Laurel does most of the downing.’ The title Another Fine Mess gives away director James […]
Director Arthur Penn’s enjoyable 1986 thriller Dead of Winter stars Mary Steenburgen (in one of three roles) as a struggling actress called Katie McGovern, who is lured by the promise of an audition and possible work […]
The fabulous Fonda gets involved with the delicious Delon in the 1964 French black-and-white mystery thriller The Love Cage [Joy House]. ‘The Women of the “Joy House” Allowed Him Every Freedom… Except the Freedom to […]
Jesús Franco [Jess Franco] acts as writer/ producer/ director/ musician and cameraman in his desperately cheap and muddled, but cheerful and good-looking 1983 Spanish film version of the Edgar Allan Poe story, originally called El Hundimiento […]