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Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1942 movie Cairo is a spy comedy, though MGM advertised it as a ‘BIG ROMANCE WITH MUSIC’. It stars Robert Young as an American news reporter called Homer Smith […]
Director Charles Crichton’s 1957 black and white drama The Man in the Sky [Decision Against Time] is Boys’ Own adventure stuff with a brave – some might even say foolhardy – test pilot John Mitchell (Jack […]
It’s Bob Hope versus the Nazis in director David Butler’s amusing, little-known 1943 wartime Washington spy comedy thriller They Got Me Covered about a Gestapo espionage ring planning sabotage. It is a surprise subject for […]
Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker and a young Vivien Leigh kick up a storm over an old Scots lady and a dog licence, in directors Ian Dalrymple and Victor Saville’s 1937 British clever canine caper Storm […]
Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary film-maker Matthew Heineman’s first feature film as director, A Private War (2018), is an honourable toast to old-style newspaper journalism, which is fast disappearing along with books, and its backbone, the old-style reporters who […]
Director Michael Curtiz’s excellent, tough-edged, vintage 1933 prison escape drama 20,000 Years in Sing Sing sees Spencer Tracy and Bette Davis crackle in their only ever screen pairing. Tracy was at Fox and then MGM and […]
Hedy Lamarr stars as a beautiful Communist Moscow train driver, who is romanced by American reporter Clark Gable in Soviet Moscow, in MGM’s 1940 film Comrade X. This is much pleasure, as well as quite […]