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Director George Marshall’s 1957 Paramount Pictures comedy film The Sad Sack stars Jerry Lewis and is based on the Harvey Comics character of the same title, created by George Baker. Lewis pops up again as […]
Debra Winger and John Malkovich play an American couple, playwright Kit Moresby and her husband composer Port Moresby, travelling in Morocco in 1947, who go abroad to revitalise their relationship but instead face physical and moral […]
Warren Beatty defends the 1987 mega-flop Ishtar as ‘a very good, not very big, comedy, made by a brilliant woman. And I think it’s funny.’ Disaster struck writer-director Elaine May’s daft little 1987 comedy Ishtar […]
Producer-director Anthony Kimmins’s welcome 1953 British black and white comedy The Captain’s Paradise stars Alec Guinness as Henry St James, the ferryboat captain happily chugging between Gibraltar and Tangiers, enjoying the bigamous luxury of different […]
Marlene Dietrich oozes sensational allure in her American debut as the pansexual mystery heroine in the 1930 pre-Code romantic drama film Morocco. Gary Cooper and Adolphe Menjou have to work hard to attract any attention. […]
Modern medicine meets its match in traditional Moroccan magic when the French doctor Henrik (Mel Ferrer) falls for a wild, strange local Arab girl called Saadia (Rita Gam) whom he saves from sickness and the […]
Writer-director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s thrilling 1967 Italian movie Oedipus Rex [Edipo Re] is Oedipus complex. The star of Pasolini’s first film, Accattone (1961), Franco Citti takes the title role of Oedipus in this beautiful filming […]