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Will Hay’s last film My Learned Friend, directed in 1943 by Basil Dearden and Will Hay, is extremely funny and has the bonus of an unusually macabre edge to it. Hay plays seedy lawyer William […]
Director Nicholas Ray’s distinguished 1951 film noir drama On Dangerous Ground stars Robert Ryan as brutal, obsessive city police detective Jim Wilson, who sees the error of his savage ways when he is sent upstate […]
Director Alfred L Werker’s 1955 Western for Allied Artists Pictures, At Gunpoint [Gunpoint], stars Fred MacMurray and Dorothy Malone, who give strong, intense portrayals. This handsomely mounted Western boasts a well-trodden plot about an upright, peaceful […]
Director Charles Rogers’s hilarious 1935 slapstick comedy short film Tit for Tat is Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s only sequel, a continuation of 1934’s popular Them Thar Hills. This time Stan and Ollie open an […]
The slick 1947 British film noir thriller The Upturned Glass stars James Mason as a neurosurgeon intent on avenging the murder of his lover. Director Lawrence Huntington’s 1947 The Upturned Glass is a slickly handled […]
Charles Crichton, best known for his comedies, directs this robust, tough-toned British-made, but American-set 1958 black and white action adventure thriller Floods of Fear. The story is about two convicts (Howard Keel, Cyril Cusack), a […]
Director Martin Ritt’s 1957 Edge of the City [A Man Is Ten Feet Tall] stars John Cassavetes as an army deserter called Axel Nordmann, who joins up with easy-going New York dockworker Tommy Tyler (Sidney Poitier) […]