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This familiar-feeling big top melodrama, with its old tale of circus family conflicts, is a sneaky reworking of themes from the big-city drama House of Strangers (1949) and the Western Broken Lance (1954) without actually […]
‘The Story of a Cop Who Used His Wife as Bait for a Killer!’ Budd Boetticher’s underrated 1956 hide-and-seek film noir crime thriller The Killer Is Loose stars Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming and Wendell Corey […]
Sir Terence Rattigan’s scintillating, beautifully written stage play comes to the screen in director Anthony Asquith’s respectful, riveting and inspiring 1948 film version with its drama and dialogue almost intact. However, it shows the actual trial, […]
Director Jack Conway’s glitzy 1942 mystery film noir thriller is set in Paris in 1935 and tells an engrossing story with classic vintage actors. Despite being made during World War Two and its setting, there’s no hint of […]
Arthur Miller’s famous 1952 drama about a community torn apart by mass hysteria has lost none of its relevance in 1996. The handsome looking production is capably helmed by British director Nicholas Hytner (maker of […]
Co-writer/director Billy Wilder’s excellent 1957 movie version of Agatha Christie’s ingenious if a shade creaky London-set courtroom thriller is witty, suspenseful and hugely entertaining. Christie’s 1952 international stage success is based on her 1925 short story Traitor’s […]
The 1960 French film La Vérité [The Truth] was the highest grossing film of Brigitte Bardot, who called it her favourite of her films. Released in 1960, La Vérité [The Truth] was a runaway hit […]