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After just six movies as a star, and quitting in 1970 after Ryan’s Daughter, Christopher Jones made one final screen appearance in the 1996 American ensemble cast crime comedy Mad Dog Time [Trigger Happy] written and directed […]
Writer / producer/ director Francis Ford Coppola’s teasingly nightmarish 2011 experimental horror thriller stars Val Kilmer as Hall Baltimore a-down-on-his-luck writer who specializes in novels based on witch hunting, and Elle Fanning as young girl Virginia or […]
Director Elia Kazan’s stupendous 1947 real-life American crime film noir thriller Boomerang! tells the riveting, realistic true tale of a State’s Attorney (Dana Andrews) who sets out to discover the truth after he decides he […]
The brilliantly talented funnymen movie star partners Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor are re-teamed for director Arthur Hiller’s wacky 1989 comedy thriller about a deaf man, Dave (Wilder), and a blind man, Wally (Pryor), who […]
The 1971 horror thriller film What’s the Matter with Helen? is a prime slice of deliciously hammy, creepy melodrama, in which Debbie Reynolds and Shelley Winters have a grand old time as Thirties Hollywood mothers […]
Director Richard Fleischer’s absorbing 1971 British anti-capital punishment film 10 Rillington Place re-creates the infamous real-life Forties John Christie murder case in London. Richard Attenborough’s chilling portrayal of the serial killer John Christie deservedly gathered […]
The 1959 American legal drama film The Young Philadelphians is based on the 1956 novel The Philadelphian by Richard P Powell, and stars Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Robert Vaughn and Alexis Smith. Director Vincent Sherman’s soapy 1959 novel-to-film transfer The Young Philadelphians is trashy but […]