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Back at Paramount Pictures, Rhonda Fleming plays the title role of The Redhead in director Leslie Fenton’s mildly enjoyable Western, The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951), also with Glenn Ford and Edmond O’Brien. Ford stars […]
Director John Farrow’s little 1938 thriller at least has the virtue of starring the great Boris Karloff in his prime. The question in Crane Wilbur’s screenplay is, has US army worker Jevries (Karloff) committed the murder […]
Writer-director Robert Bresson’s touching and personal 1967 film is the companion piece to his 1966 film Au Hasard Balthazar. Nadine Nortier stars as the alienated French rural teenager Mouchette, who meets poacher Arsène (Jean-Claude Guilbert), […]
Jean-Pierre Melville’s thrilling 1967 austere neo noir gangster movie Le Samouraï motors on Alain Delon’s enigmatic star turn and Henri Decaë’s stark Eastmancolor cinematography. ‘There is no solitude greater than a samurai’s, unless perhaps it […]
Co-writer/director Billy Wilder’s excellent 1957 movie version of Agatha Christie’s ingenious if a shade creaky London-set courtroom thriller is witty, suspenseful and hugely entertaining. Christie’s 1952 international stage success is based on her 1925 short story Traitor’s […]
Robert Siodmak directs one of Hollywood’s better Forties psychological film noir thrillers in 1946. It finds Olivia de Havilland on rousing form, enjoying herself enormously in two roles as identical twins Terry and Ruth Collins, one […]
Evil Under the Sun (1982): Hotelier Maggie Smith’s star guest is a bitchy actress (Diana Rigg) everyone wants to kill – for refusing to do a stage show, for stopping a book, or for having […]