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The 1959 Western film Day of the Outlaw stars Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise and Venetia Stevenson. It is directed by Andre DeToth, making his final Western. Philip Yordan called his script ‘one of […]
Director Rowland V Lee’s ambitious 1937 RKO Radio Pictures black and white comedy drama tackles the lively subject of 19th-century tycoonery in a fairy tale poor-man-makes-good biopic of Wall Street’s Jim Fisk – not a name on […]
As the falsely sentenced Edmond Dantès, imprisoned for life in the terrible island jail Chateau d’If, Jean Marais makes a dashing, ideal Count of Monte Cristo, in director Robert Vernay’s zesty and attractive 1954 first […]
Louis Jourdan charms his way handsomely and swashes a flashy buckle as the falsely sentenced Edmond Dantès through this good-looking and conscientious but unnecessary 1961 French remake of The Count of Monte Cristo [Le comte […]
Cybill Shepherd stars as the Henry James heroine Daisy Miller in producer-director Peter Bogdanovich’s classy and sumptuous period romantic comedy drama of manners. If it has its charms, certainly visually, it can nevertheless still seem […]
Director Curtis Bernhardt’s 1946 romantic biographical drama of the lives of the Brontës stars Ida Lupino Emily Brontë, Olivia de Havilland as Charlotte Brontë, Nancy Coleman as Anne Brontë, and Arthur Kennedy as Branwell Brontë. […]
Director Budd Boetticher’s solid 1952 Western stars Audie Murphy as Bill Doolin, aka The Cimarron Kid, who lands up behind bars after making one last ride in a train heist with the Dalton gang of Bob, Grat, Emmett […]