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Director Gordon Douglas’s 1970 adventure film Skullduggery stars Burt Reynolds and Susan Clark. The screenplay by Nelson Gidding is based on the 1952 novel Les Animaux Dénaturés by French writer Vercors, a serious work that examines the question […]
A body in the Thames; an ancient artefact missing. Clive Donner’s neatly done 1961 British crime thriller film The Sinister Man is based on a novel by Edgar Wallace. Director Clive Donner’s neatly done 1961 […]
Director James Dearden’s 1988 British period spy drama Pascali’s Island is based on the novel by Barry Unsworth and is a most satisfying tale of love and spies set on a Greek island just before […]
The surprise return of Keye Luke as Number One son Lee Chan (alongside Victor Sen Young as Number Two son Tommy Chan) is the main pleasure of director William Beaudine’s minor, feeble, late Charlie Chan […]
Director Norman Foster’s 1939 20th Century Fox black and white crime thriller Mr Moto Takes a Vacation is the eighth and last release in Peter Lorre’s enjoyable casebook, as the oriental detective Mr Moto sets […]
‘A man’s best friend is his mummy.’ Director Charles Lamont’s 1955 comedy is another fairly lively Bud Abbott and Lou Costello movie series episode, with good support actors, the expected plot and some decent jokes. In […]
Writer-producer-director Ken Russell’s wildly over-the-top 1988 horror movie The Lair of the White Worm re-tells the 1911 Bram Stoker (author of Dracula) tale about the ultimate evil worm that lives on through sexy high priestess Lady […]