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Producer-director W Lee Wilder’s 1951 Italian–American film noir crime thriller Three Steps North stars Lloyd Bridges, Lea Padovani, Aldo Fabrizi, William C Tubbs and Dino Galvani. Lloyd Bridges stars as World War Two GI Frank Keeler, dishonorably […]
When World War Two is over, the crew of a gunboat buy their old boat and run smuggled goods across the English Channel into Britain, in director Basil Dearden’s 1955 Ealing Studios black and white […]
Director Vittorio De Sica’s 1946 Shoeshine [Sciuscià] is an exquisitely made, deeply moving early Italian neo-realist world cinema classic set in post-World War Two, post-Facsist Rome. There two deprived, hungry and homeless shoeshine boys (Franco […]
The fairly imaginative 1948 crime action adventure film Saigon again pairs the sizzling hit team of Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, whose star chemistry is the making of the movie. Director Leslie Fenton’s only fairly […]
Director Malcolm Mowbray’s delightful 1984 comedy film realises Alan Bennett’s highly amusing pig tale about a late-1940s Northern England doctor’s family who raise an illegal porker and fatten it up for a royal wedding banquet. […]
In the fascinating and undervalued 1993 sequel to his 1987 international arthouse success Wings of Desire, co-writer-director Wim Wenders revisits a totally changed Berlin as he reunites with his stars Bruno Ganz and Otto Sander, who […]
‘In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, and they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherhood and 500 years of democracy […]
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