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Director Frank Borzage brings W Somerset Maugham’s 1921 stage hit The Circle to the screen with some great moments between Eleanor Boardman as Elizabeth Cheney and Creighton Hale as Arnold Cheney in this beautifully shot […]
Producer-director Gilbert Cates turns a 1964 flop play by Robert Anderson into a showcase for a group of powerhouse performances in his 1970 drama I Never Sang for My Father. It is a guarantee of […]
Director Nicolas Roeg’s interesting 1989 TV movie version of the Tennessee Williams play is reworked by teleplay writer Gavin Lambert, apparently using the playwright’s own revisions, though these are not always an improvement on the […]
‘Plastic surgery, at times, seems to me to be very, very complicated.’ – Dr Boris Gregor. Director Edward D Wood Jr strikes again in this 1954 film noir thriller starring Timothy Farrell, Lyle Talbot, Steve Reeves, […]
Co-producer/ writer/ director Tom Gries’s intensely burning 1968 Western is excellent, with a quietly powerful story about Charlton Heston’s aging, saddle-sore cowboy Will Penny, who gets a job on a large cattle spread and finds […]
William A Fraker makes his directorial debut with the tremendous 1970 elegiac Western film Monte Walsh, blessed with performances of high stature by Lee Marvin and Jack Palance. American cinematographer William A Fraker makes his directorial […]
Luchino Visconti’s 1974 penultimate film Conversation Piece is a stately, elegant and affecting fable, reuniting him with his longtime companion Helmut Berger and Burt Lancaster. Co-writer/director Luchino Visconti’s penultimate conversation piece movie from 1974 is […]