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The 1958 British black and white crime film Man with a Gun from Merton Park Studios stars Lee Patterson, Rona Anderson and John Le Mesurier. It is notable as having Michael Winner’s first feature film […]
Director Paul Almond’s 1962 British black and white Merton Park second feature thriller film Backfire! stars Alfred Burke, Zena Marshall and Oliver Johnston. It is a cheap and humble but reasonably satisfactory Edgar Wallace mystery […]
Director Ron Howard’s 1991 American action thriller film Backdraft stars Kurt Russell as hotheaded but stalwart fireman Lieutenant Stephen “Bull” McCaffrey and William Baldwin as his younger brother Probationary Firefighter Brian McCaffrey, who fight blazes, battle each other […]
Director Basil Dearden’s 1958 black and white crime drama Violent Playground is a little-known, but quite well-done film from the British neo-realist school, with Liverpool part-time policeman and juvenile liaison officer Sergeant Truman (Stanley Baker) […]
Steve Reeves (aka Mr Universe) stars as Aeneas and John Drew Barrymore plays Ulysses in co-writer/ director Giorgio Ferroni’s popular, robust and manly, if amusingly daft 1961 muscleman action adventure from Italy. The Trojan Horse […]
Director John G Avildsen’s 1973 drama finds Jack Lemmon on his best Oscar-winning form as the harassed, disillusioned businessman Harry Stoner, who is haunted by memories of his World War Two war buddies while he […]
Co-writer/director Daniel Taradash’s hesitant but important 1956 drama stars Bette Davis as widowed American small-town librarian Alicia Hull who is branded as a subversive and a Communist when she stands up to a campaign to […]