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Director Dorothy Arzner’s 1932 Paramount Pictures black and white pre-Code era comedy drama Merrily We Go To Hell stars Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Skeets Gallagher, Florence Burton, Esther Howard, Kent Taylor and Cary […]
Director Sam Newfield’s 1947 lower-budget action film Adventure Island gives Rhonda Fleming her first leading role. Made by Pine-Thomas Productions for release by Paramount Pictures, it is shot in the two-color Cinecolor process (or ‘gorgeous […]
Director Mike Nichols’s 1990 celebrity memoirs movie Postcards from the Edge finds Shirley MacLaine bravely playing an ageing, drinking, domineering Mommie Dearest-type star named Doris Mann and Meryl Streep playing her drug-abusing actress daughter, Suzanne […]
Director Peter K Smith’s 1985 film No Surrender is a tough, dark-shaded comedy from writer Alan Bleasdale, who is after a metaphor for the Irish troubles in his tale of a murky Liverpool nightclub where […]
Director Howard Hawks’s impeccably made 1936 war drama The Road to Glory, based on the novel by Roland Dorgeles, follows a division of the French army as they struggle through the horrors of World War […]
Director Henry Hathaway’s 1956 The Bottom of the Bottle [Beyond the River] stars Van Johnson as a drunken escaped convict Donald Martin, convicted five years before for killing a man in self-defence in a barroom […]
Director Bud Yorkin films an inferior sequel to the 1981 hit Arthur in the 1988 comedy Arthur 2: On the Rocks, with all three stars from the original returning, but not the original writer-director Steve […]