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Helen Hayes won the 1932 Best Actress Oscar for her wild overacting as the newly-wed French country woman Madelon Claudet, who is bullied by her new mother-in-law, after marrying US artist Larry (Neil Hamilton), who […]
Director Don Siegel’s far-fetched and feeble 1977 spy thriller, based on Walter Wager’s 1975 novel, stars Charles Bronson as a KGB agent called Major Grigori Borzov, who is sent to stop programmed Russian spies from blowing […]
Nicholas Ray’s intelligent 1949 courtroom melodrama Knock on Any Door stars Humphrey Bogart as a lawyer defending a Chicago slum kid (John Derek) from a cop killer murder rap by trying to appeal to the […]
Director Peter Yates follows up his Eyewitness (1981) in 1987 with another top-notch thriller in similar vein. It boasts charismatic performances by Cher as public defender Kathleen Riley, Liam Neeson as her client Carl Anderson, a […]
Director Chen Kaige’s magnificent 1993 epic romantic music drama is the co-winner of the 1993 Palme d’Or and winner of the International Critics’ FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. It follows the changing fortunes and […]
Director David Butler’s semi-classic 1936 adventure is a successful, fast-moving and handsomely filmed version of the Jack London story, with Jean Muir and Thomas Beck as siblings Sylvia Burgess and Hal who are bequeathed a mine. […]
Cast against type, Gary Cooper stars effectively as ruthlessly ambitious outsider Brant Royle in director Michael Curtiz’s sparky, surprisingly little-known 1950 film of Victorian Texas tobacco-growing folk who spend most of their time wrecking marriages, […]