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Director Warren Beatty won the Academy Award for Best Director for his fascinating, sometimes riveting 1981 film about the life of communist American -radical journalist John Reed from 1913 through his involvement in the 1917 […]
James Mason is outstanding as successful novelist Trigorin in director Sidney Lumet’s fine, faithful, though long and gloomy 1968 film version of the Anton Chekhov classic play The Sea Gull. With this cast and crew […]
‘MEET THE MOST TITILATING TIME BOMBS EVER! ‘ Vincent Price went to Italy to re-create his role as the mad scientist Dr Goldfoot for director Mario Bava’s unwanted and stupid 1966 sequel to the previous […]
Director John Frankenheimer’s 1968 movie of Bernard Malamud’s much admired novel is forceful and well meaning. But is also long, slow-moving and very hard going and was therefore unsurprisingly not popular at the box office. However, it […]
Writer-director Mel Brooks’s engaging 1970 movie version of the much filmed 1920s classic Soviet satirical novel The Twelve Chairs by the Odessan Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov is sleek, witty and amusing. Ron Moody stars as […]
Director Clint Eastwood’s ham-fisted 1982 action adventure thriller is a rare misfire for Eastwood, who also stars as Mitchell Gant, a crinkly US aviator who comes out of retirement and goes undercover to the Soviet Union […]
Marlene Dietrich is truly magnificent in Josef von Sternberg’s 1934 film The Scarlet Empress, a spectacular, visually thrilling historical romantic biopic. Marlene Dietrich is truly magnificent in the 1934 film The Scarlet Empress, producer-director Josef […]