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James Caan was a rather ordinary actor and screen presence in his young days, and here he is, aged 25, in 1965 starring in a rather ordinary soap-opera type of movie, written by George Kirgo […]
Dennis O’Keefe and Margo investigate when an escaped leopard and a serial killer are terrorising the villagers in New Mexico, in Jacques Tourneur’s brilliant 1943 film noir horror thriller The Leopard Man. Director Jacques Tourneur’s […]
Director Billy Wilder’s sharp and funny 1964 comedy provides a grand star showcase for Dean Martin, who sends his image up gamely and delightfully as a hard-drinking, charming and lecherous Las Vegas crooner called Dino with […]
This polished 1986 thriller is a successful second trip by director Claude Chabrol into territory that he carved out as his own – the French provincial thriller. Jean Poiret easily sustains a smooth and seemingly effortless reprise […]
Writer-producer-director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1954 Oscar-winning drama stars Humphrey Bogart as film-maker Harry Dawes, who moulds shoeless gypsy flamenco dancer Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner) into a movie legend, after seeing her in a Madrid club. […]
‘There are three things one can never be sure about – horses, the weather and women’ – The Falcon. Michael Arlen’s débonair detective The Falcon (Tom Conway) goes out West to investigate the roots of […]
Director Thornton Freeland’s fun and sometimes still thrilling 1933 musical Flying Down to Rio is famous now, if at all, as the first teaming of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, in what turned out to […]