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Director John English’s neat and nifty little 1945 horror thriller stars Richard Arlen, Stanley Ridges and Lynne Roberts, who make a grand job of John K Butler’s original screenplay in which the evil spirit of an executed […]
Hammer Films’ still-fun B-movie crime thriller sequel film A Case for PC 49 is made in Britain in 1951 by director Francis Searle and features the original radio PC 49 Brian Reece. Hammer Films’ second […]
Producer-director Michael Winner’s 1971 Western stars Burt Lancaster as Jared Maddox, the lawman from Bannock who rides into the town of Sabbath to round up all the cattlemen who accidentally killed an elderly dude with a […]
Ken Russell’s incredibly boisterous 1975 film adaptation of The Who’s rock opera Tommy features Roger Daltrey as the catatonic Tommy Walker. Tina Turner as The Acid Queen, Jack Nicholson as a slimy doctor, and Ann-Margret as […]
Sydney Pollack’s complex and satisfying 1981 thriller film Absence of Malice stars Sally Field as a naïve reporter tricked by the FBI into framing a Miami liquor wholesaler (Paul Newman) with a false story. Producer-director […]
Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1955 British thriller stars Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, and Kay Walsh. With John Cresswell’s screenplay based on the play Murder Mistaken by Janet Green, this is a stagey and creaky but still […]
Writer-director Derek Jarman’s 1986 fictionalised biographical drama Caravaggio stars Nigel Terry as the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, born 1573, who lies dying in 1610 and thinks back over his life, work and love […]