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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 […]
Director Martin Ritt’s 1964 American Western film The Outrage remakes Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 Japanese classic Rashomon, and stars Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G Robinson and William Shatner. Though by no means an outrage, director Martin Ritt’s 1964 American […]
Alain Delon gives a sympathetic portrait of an ex-con struggling to stay on the straight and narrow, in José Giovanni’s powerful 1973 French drama film Two Against the Law [Deux Hommes dans la Ville]. French […]
There’s lots of fascinating interest in this creepy and provocative True Story about New York Times reporter Michael Finkel, who gets out of the frying pan and into the fire after he is disgraced and […]
Director Clint Eastwood’s 1997 thriller stars Kevin Spacey, who impresses mightily as Jim Williams, an antiques dealer who shoots dead his employee Billy Hanson (Jude Law) and is on trial for murder. Williams is a self-made millionaire, art collector, […]
Immediately after World War Two, in an American Pacific Northwest small town, the discovery of the death of a white fisherman at sea and the subsequent murder trial of his neighbour, a Japanese-American fisherman (Rick […]
In Sidney Lumet’s electrifying 1957 film classic courtroom drama, Henry Fonda gives a true, trusty, stalwart performance as Juror Number 8 in a murder trial. He’s a symbolically white-suited architect, who starts as the lone […]