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Director Don Chaffey’s 1958 black and white British thriller The Man Upstairs stars Richard Attenborough in the downbeat but involving story of apartment block tenant Peter Watson, The Man Upstairs who is having a nervous […]
Director Elio Petri’s 1961 Italian black and white crime thriller The Assassin [L’Assassino] [The Ladykiller of Rome] stars Marcello Mastroianni as rich but dodgy antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli, who is arrested and accused of murdering […]
Director Geoffrey Reeve’s 1971 British thriller Puppet on a Chain is the always-popular macho action movie, based on the novel by Alistair MacLean, in which spies root out drug runners in Amsterdam, giving an obvious […]
Sometimes, very rarely, Clint Eastwood surprises audiences by showing that he can be in a romantic, much softer mood, as with The Bridges of Madison County. Here, back in 1973 the Eastwood-directed romance Breezy, with […]
Director Jerry Paris’s 1985 comedy Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment is a mostly unfunny sequel to the 1984 hit Police Academy that sees the gang now graduated from the Police Academy and issued with […]
The topical theme of budget cutbacks threatening the closure of the academy is a solid enough base for director Jerry Paris’s 1986 Police Academy 3: Back in Training, the rickety second sequel to the 1984 […]
Directors Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker’s 1986 Ruthless People is a hugely entertaining black comedy starring Danny DeVito as Sam Stone, a horrible hubby scheming to bump off his strident wife Barbara (Bette […]