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Warner Bros revamp their 1931 hit Illicit as a pre-Motion Picture Production Code vehicle for the young and vibrant Bette Davis, who grabs hold of her first starring role by the scruff of its neck […]
Director Bruce Robinson again casts his Withnail & I (1987) star Richard E Grant, this time as Denis Dimbleby Bagley, an advertising executive who finds a stress-related boil on his neck that metamorphoses into his doppelgänger. […]
Co-writer/ producer/ director David Swift’s 1964 comedy gives Jack Lemmon an archetypal role – a fussy married adman who pretends to be the new husband of his divorced neighbour (Romy Schneider) so that she can inherit […]
American International Pictures’ sixth Beach Party movie is the last one to feature Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello (returning as Dee Dee), though Avalon appears for only six minutes as he was shooting another AIP film, Sergeant Deadhead (1965). […]
Director Gary Marshall’s interesting if slightly awkward 1986 movie stars Jackie Gleason in his last film before he died in 1987, along with Eva Marie Saint and Tom Hanks. Gleason plays a grumpy old dad […]
Writer-director Elia Kazan’s really tedious 1969 think-in romantic drama movie comes from his period of sharp decline. And, try hard though they do, it is not among the distinguished stars’ most glorious moments. Kirk Douglas […]
Producer-director Michael Winner’s typically unsubtle 1967 Swinging Sixties tragi-comedy I’ll Never Forget What’s’isname stars Oliver Reed as Andrew Quint, a conscience-stricken adman who smashes up his desk and quits the business for an honest life […]