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 […]
The 1955 crime film Contraband Spain stars Richard Greene as a US Treasury agent sent to the French-Spanish border to round up smugglers and counterfeiters after his brother is murdered. ‘Murder most foul… Great the […]
Director Philip Leacock’s 1958 British black and white film Innocent Sinners stars Flora Robson, Catherine Lacey, David Kossoff, and Barbara Mullen. It is another pleasing little film about children from director Leacock, who made The Spanish […]
The 1951 British crime drama B film The Quiet Woman is a tale of liquor smuggling and an escaped convict, set on the edge of bleak Romney Marsh, and stars Derek Bond, Jane Hylton and […]
MGM’s 1929 drama film Madame X stars Ruth Chatterton in the third film version of the Alexandre Bisson play about Jacqueline Floriot, a fallen woman on trial for murder, defended unwittingly by her son. Director […]
The 1948 British film The Trial of Madame X starring Mara Russell-Tavernan and Paul England is the incredibly stiff and creaky fifth film version of the much filmed 1908 stage play Madame X by Alexandre […]
John Baxter’s 1943 British wartime patriotic propaganda social drama film The Shipbuilders is based on the 1935 novel by George Blake, and stars Clive Brook and Morland Graham. Producer/ director John Baxter’s 1943 British patriotic […]
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