‘The important thing is true love.’ Mmm… quite. Director Norman Jewison’s utterly sweet 1994 old-style romantic comedy Only You sets out to prove its own adage as hopeless romantic Faith Corvatch (Marisa Tomei) sets off […]
Director Basil Dearden’s painless 1968 Only When I Larf is an enjoyably tolerable Sixties British crime caper comedy with brightness, if not subtlety to commend it. It features one of Richard Attenborough’s more flamboyant performances […]
James M Cain’s dark and gritty 1937 thriller source novel Serenade is emasculated to produce a standard soapy Hollywood musical tale of a poor vineyard worker Damon Vincenti (Mario Lanza) rising to operatic success via […]
Dick Emery’s camp, lowbrow television act transfers to the movies amusingly and successfully in Cliff Owen’s 1972 British comedy Ooh… You Are Awful [Get Charlie Tully]. The plot, about a con man Charlie Tully (Emery) […]
Peter Fonda’s 1979 PG certificate Western comedy film Wanda Nevada also stars Peter Fonda as drifter/ gambler Beaudray Demerille and Brooke Shields as Wanda Nevada, the 13-year-old orphan with dreams of singing at the Grand […]
The 1971 Western film One More Train to Rob, about the aftermath of an assault on a trainload of gold ending up with the hero being framed and sent to prison, features a star turn […]
Viva Villa! (1934) and an MGM mess in Mexico… Directors Jack Conway and Howard Hawks’s fictionalised 1934 historical adventure Viva Villa! Stars the irrepressible Wallace Beery, who shines as the Mexican revolutionary bandit Pancho Villa, […]
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