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The amusing 1937 American mystery thriller film Bulldog Drummond Escapes stars Ray Milland as Captain Hugh ‘Bulldog’ Drummond, who tries to save beautiful heiress Phyllis Clavering (Heather Angel) from a spy organisation. Paramount Pictures’ first […]
The treasurable Ralph Richardson makes a rousing Major Hugh ‘Bulldog’ Hugh Drummond in Sapper’s fascist tale of organising a black-shirted vigilante group of men from his former unit to end crime in Britain by removing wily […]
Director Lloyd French’s 1934 comedy short Oliver the Eighth is, naturally enough, about Oliver, Oliver Hardy, that is, who answers a personal column ad to marry a wealthy widow called Mrs Fox (Mae Busch), who […]
Director Martha Coolidge’s 1991 drama Rambling Rose is one of those intelligent, bitter-sweet, sentimental, On Golden Pond-style films the Americans do so well, and actors in the US live for because they provide the Oscar-winning […]
Director Richard Thorpe’s 1939 jungle adventure Tarzan Finds a Son! is spirited stuff, shot in Florida. Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan return as Tarzan and Jane, who find an abandoned child (Johnny Sheffield), whose parents […]
Director Zhang Yimou’s dazzlingly brilliant 1988 Red Sorghum [Hong gao liang] is a masterly epic drama from China that charts the life of a teenage bride (Gong Li), from her wedding in the 1930s up […]
Producer-director Robert Altman’s tense, involving, tough-toned 1996 crime film Kansas City stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte, Michael Murphy, Dermot Mulroney and Steve Buscemi. In the screenplay by Altman and Frank Barhydt, a pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics […]