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Gene Hackman and Anne Archer star in the thrillingly exciting 1990 American neo-noir action thriller film Narrow Margin, reworking the 1952 RKO classic. ‘It will take you to the edge of suspense.’ Director Peter Hyams’s ultra-suspense 1990 thriller […]
Director Peter Collinson’s 1968 Up the Junction movie adaptation of Nell Dunn’s famous 1963 book and Ken Loach’s classic BBC TV adaptation of 1965 was popular but did not spark the kind of controversy or […]
Sadly, it is third time unlucky for MGM with this campy second remake of the Franz Lehár operetta The Merry Widow (following the 1925 silent The Merry Widow with Mae Murray and John Gilbert and The Merry […]
Director Bruce Humberstone skillfully revives the antique show for his enjoyable 1953 musical adventure The Desert Song, with ideal stars in Gordon MacRae, Kathryn Grayson, Steve Cochran and Raymond Massey. This third film of Sigmund […]
Director Robert Florey’s 1943 musical movie The Desert Song is an antique show, but the fine, on-form cast of Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Bruce Cabot, Lynne Overman, Gene Lockhart, Victor Francen, Faye Emerson and Marcel […]
Director Charles Walters makes a 1952 MGM musical with Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Majorie Main and Keenan Wynn. The spirits rise – but only to fall again, because this is a dull rendition of the Harry […]
Lew Ayres brings surprising conviction to a silly role as Dr Patrick Cory, a surgeon who keeps a plane-crash dead millionaire’s brain alive in his lab and becomes possessed by it himself, taking on the […]