Richard Hearne’s dual role in the 1943 comedy film The Butler’s Dilemma allows him to play wimpish young Rodney Playfair and doddery old butler Chapman, who is Hearne’s famous stage and TV character Mr Pastry […]
Lewis Gilbert’s 1951 British crime film There Is Another Sun [Wall of Death] is a downbeat tale of betrayal about two carnival folk, and stars Maxwell Reed, Susan Shaw and Laurence Harvey. Lewis Gilbert’s 1951 […]
The 1946 action crime thriller film Avalanche stars Bruce Cabot and Roscoe Karns as US Treasury agents on the trail of a tax evader, getting involved in a series of murders at a ski resort […]
The 1951 British crime drama film Scarlet Thread is directed with some brio and style by the young Lewis Gilbert, with Laurence Harvey and Sydney Tafler starring as crooks hiding out in Cambridge University. Solomon […]
Lloyd Bacon’s well-made but unremarkable 1953 Universal Pictures American Technicolor Western film The Great Sioux Uprising stars Jeff Chandler, Faith Domergue and Lyle Bettger. Director Lloyd Bacon’s well-made but unremarkable 1953 Universal Pictures American Technicolor […]
‘Blood-Vengeance Clashed With Custer’s Cavalry!’ The competent 1965 Western CinemaScope film The Great Sioux Massacre stars Joseph Cotten, Darren McGavin and Philip Carey. It is interesting as a different take on Custer’s Last Stand. ‘Blood-Vengeance […]
The appealing 1954 British fantasy comedy film The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp is based on a novel and subsequent 1951 TV play by Charles Terrot, and stars Diane Cilento as The Angel, Felix Aylmer […]