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Director Alf Kjellin’s 1969 Midas Run [A Run on Gold] stars Fred Astaire as a devious veteran British secret service agent called John Pedley, who plots with duped professor Mike Warden (Richard Crenna) to steal a […]
Director Alain Renais’s offbeat, humorous 1980 film My American Uncle [Mon Oncle d’Amérique] is a character study of a technical manager at a textile factory (Gérard Depardieu), a self-educated actress (Nicole Garcia) and a writer/politician […]
Co-writer/ co-producer/ director Norman Panama’s 1959 action crime thriller The Trap [The Baited Trap] stars Lee J Cobb as low-life law-breaker Victor Massonetti, a wanted mobster who is attempting to hide from the cops before […]
The 1928 Western film In Old Arizona stars Warner Baxter, who won the 1930 Best Actor Oscar for his first appearance as O Henry’s guitar-strumming bandit, the Cisco Kid. Director Irving Cummings’s 1928 Western In […]
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are on good form in director Leo McCarey’s bizarre and amusing 1929 20-minute two-reel farcical comedy Wrong Again, written by H M Walker (titles), based on a story by Lewis R […]
The 1961 film noir Man-Trap is based on John D MacDonald’s novel Soft Touch and stars Jeffrey Hunter as a Korean War veteran involved in his old buddy David Janssen’s scheme to steal $3.5 million from a Central American dictator. […]
Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1954 interesting but misfiring would-be comedy is set in a town symbolically called Progress, Arkansas, where a beautiful millionairess called Corby Lane (Jean Simmons) goes home to the place she was brought […]