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Ray Milland directs the 1968 film of the British courtroom drama play by Jack Roffey which he had earlier appeared in successfully on Broadway, with Roffey writing his own screenplay. It was filmed at Shepperton Studios, Surrey, England. Milland also […]
‘I never met a dame yet who wasn’t a nitwit and a lunkhead.’ MGM signed up Paramount studios actress Claudette Colbert to star with their contract artist James Stewart in director W S Van Dyke […]
Director Martin Ritt’s 1957 Edge of the City [A Man Is Ten Feet Tall] stars John Cassavetes as an army deserter called Axel Nordmann, who joins up with easy-going New York dockworker Tommy Tyler (Sidney Poitier) […]
Director Alan J Pakula’s The Devil’s Own (1997) is a poor and diabolically misguided action crime drama using the IRA, gunmen and terrorism as a subject for thriller entertainment. Brad Pitt makes the mistake of playing deadly […]
Director Zhang Yimou’s 1990 film Ju Dou [Judou] is an engrossing Chinese-Japanese drama about an old man, a dye maker called Yang Jin-shan (Li Wei), coping with his gorgeous, young flirtatious new wife Ju Dou (the […]
Steven Seagal stars in the above-par 1996 action movie The Glimmer Man as a New York cop on a serial killer murder case. Bob Gunton and Brian Cox play their bad guy roles entertainingly. Steven […]
The 1991 movie Homicide is a smart, upmarket neo-noir crime thriller from clever writer-director David Mamet, who ignores some of the genre’s thrills at his peril in a look at anti-Semitism and racism. Joe Mantegna […]