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Director James Goldstone’s 1971 drama Red Sky at Morning is based on the novel by Richard Bradford and stars Richard Thomas as young Joshua Arnold, who moves to New Mexico in 1944 as his dad […]
Director Henry Hathaway’s 1955 sporting drama The Racers [Such Men Are Dangerous] stars Kirk Douglas as Gino Borgesa, who dashes around the picturesque roads of Europe in his quest to win the Monaco Grand Prix, […]
Director H C Potter’s merry and diverting 1957 romantic comedy Top Secret Affair stars Susan Hayward as Dottie Peale, a newswoman publisher who tries to bring army war-hero/ politician Major General Melville A Goodwin (Kirk […]
The 1948 Western film Rachel and the Stranger stars Robert Mitchum as Indian scout Jim, who visits a backwoods cabin in the 1820s and falls for purchased bride Rachel (Loretta Young), whose jealous husband Big […]
All aboard the London to Folkestone express for Michael Crichton’s 1979 Victorian crime caper, with Sean Connery as the cracksman William Pierce and Donald Sutherland as the safe-cracker Agar. ‘Steal from a moving train? Whoever […]
After putting songs and smiles to Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer in 1973 and Huckleberry Finn in 1974, Reader’s Digest Films try the format on Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop. Director Michael Tuchner’s 1975 Mr […]
Director J Lee Thompson’s 1974 Huckleberry Finn is the sequel to the 1973 family musical adventure Tom Sawyer, with Jeff East returning from that film as Huckleberry Finn and Lucille Benson back as Widder Douglas. […]