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As director or screenwriter, witch-hunt victim Abraham Polonsky was the auteur of three of the great film noirs: Body and Soul (1947), Force of Evil (1948) and Odds Against Tomorrow (1959). McCarthy witch-hunt victim Abraham […]
Melvin Van Peebles writes, scores, edits, directs, produces and stars in the 1971 action crime drama Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Asssss Song. Melvin Van Peebles is the whole show as Sweetback, a cool guy on the […]
Director Ken Annakin’s 1957 black and white thriller Across the Bridge stars Rod Steiger, who came to Britain to play Carl Schaffner, a scared swindler running from the London law ( Noel Willman as Chief […]
Sidney Poitier directs the 1982 Hitchcockian comedy thriller Hanky Panky, with Gene Wilder as an innocent architect, Michael Jordon, chased across country by spies and police. Gilda Radner plays the mystery woman accompanying him and […]
Director Fred Schepisi’s spirited 1982 Western film Barbarosa is made with conviction by Australian director Schepisi in the traditional manner but with Eighties arty overtones. Barbarosa is well cast, with country singer Willie Nelson charismatic […]
Director John Landis’s dark and dangerous 1985 comedy thriller Into the Night stars Jeff Goldblum as wimpish Los Angeles aviation designer Ed Okin, who cannot sleep, so he drives aimlessly around LA and ends up in the parking garage […]
Asked to make his directorial debut by longtime producer friend A C Lyles, James Cagney takes his one and only walk behind the cameras to direct this carefully made, fairly successful and effective American film noir version of Graham […]