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Director Luchino Visconti’s documentary-style 1948 neo-realist masterpiece is centred on the day-to-day working and living existence of a fisherman, ‘Ntoni Valastro (Antonio Arcidiacono), his family and the people from Aci Trezza, a small Sicilian village near Catania. It is […]
The Jaws writer Peter Benchley adapts his own novel and comes back together with the Jaws producers Richard D Zanuck and David Brown for a movie they would no doubt rather forget. Probably Michael Caine isn’t too […]
This early Federico Fellini 1952 movie, his first as writer and sole director (after jointly filming 1951’s Lights of Variety), is an extremely eye-catching and highly diverting triumph. It focuses on a Rome honeymooning couple, Wanda […]
Director John S Robertson’s soapy 1929 silent movie drama, based on Adela Rogers St Johns’s 1928 romantic novel, is remembered, if at all, really only because it stars Greta Garbo. But that is enough! Garbo […]
Nicol Williamson is oddly cast as Sherlock Holmes, who is tricked by his brother Mycroft (Charles Gray) into travelling to Vienna to be treated by Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin) to recover from his cocaine addiction. Producer-director Herbert Ross’s 1976 […]
Producer-director Joseph Sargent’s 1987 fourth and final part of the shark saga Jaws: The Revenge has only its star Lorraine Gary as Ellen Brody, widow of Roy Scheider’s character police chief Brody, surviving from the first […]
Richard Widmark is absurdly cast as Rolfe, a Viking adventurer, and Sidney Poitier not much better as Prince Aly Mansuh, leader of the Moors, who come to blows over the legendary Golden Bell, made of pure […]