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Basil Dearden’s 1954 Ealing Studios British Eastmancolor film Out of the Clouds is a high-flying, old-fashioned Grand Hotel-style multi-story drama set in a fog-bound London Airport of the day. Director Basil Dearden’s 1954 Ealing Studios […]
The likeable 1954 British second feature crime thriller film Dangerous Cargo is inspired by an attempted robbery at Heathrow Airport in 1952, and stars Jack Watling, Susan Stephen, Karel Stepanek, and Terence Alexander. ‘This operation […]
After two box-office disappointments, it seemed that Robert Wagner was unable to make the transition to top-level star. This appeared confirmed when he was the lead in Stopover Tokyo (1957), a CinemaScope and DeLuxe colour […]
The 1985 British drama Wetherby is a typical piece from writer David Hare – dour, intelligent and enigmatic – with Vanessa Redgrave starring as Jean Travers, a spinster teacher interested in a weird chap (Tim […]
Menahem Golan’s 1986 action thriller The Delta Force is a level-headed film of the real-life rescue of a hijacked TWA plane in Greece, in which the terrorists come up against a Delta Force crack team […]
James Garner gives an engaging lightweight turn as the lead character William Beddoes, an American businessman abroad on a work trip in Portugal, who gets confused with a British spy on the trail of lost diamonds, […]
Writer-director Chris Marker’s brilliantly teasing and challenging 1962 28-minute French black and white science fiction featurette La Jetée (The Jetty) is constructed almost entirely from still photographs and tells the story of a man and […]