The creaky 1958 British courtroom drama film The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk stars Anna Neagle as a brilliant barrister defending a US scientist (Anthony Quayle) charged with killing his CIA spy ‘wife’ (Zsa Zsa Gabor). […]
Director Evelyn Purcell’s likeable 1986 comedy film Nobody’s Fool is written by American playwright Beth Henley, and stars Rosanna Arquette, Eric Roberts, Mare Winningham, Jim Youngs, and Louise Fletcher. Nobody’s Fool is a whimsical romantic […]
The nimble 1959 colour Western film Face of a Fugitive stars Fred MacMurray as a bank robber who is wrongly pursued for killing a deputy sheriff but starts afresh. ‘JUST TIME ENOUGH… to changes his […]
The stalwart 1950 Technicolor Western film The Sundowners [Thunder in the Dust] stars Robert Preston and Robert Sterling as rancher brothers battling one another. ‘He was a target for every man’s bullet… and every woman’s […]
Alan Le May’s dour 1950 Western film High Lonesome stars John Barrymore Jr as a sulky young drifter, who arrives at a ranch beset by killings, and then goes haywire, becoming number one suspect in […]
It’s a CIA plot (not George Orwell’s) The secretly CIA-funded 1954 British animated feature Animal Farm is made by John Halas and Joy Batchelor, and features the voice artistry of Maurice Denham as all the […]
The 1960 British crime thriller B film Jackpot stars William Hartnell as the police superintendent determined to track down the safecracker who stole £6,000 from The Jackpot Club. Director Montgomery Tully’s 1960 British black and […]