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Director Jacques Charon’s 1968 DeLuxe Color 20th Century Fox American/ French feature Panavision film comedy A Flea in her Ear stars Rex Harrison, Rachel Roberts, Rosemary Harris and Louis Jourdan. Harrison plays the always-exhausted lawyer Victor Chandebisse, […]
Director William Dieterle’s 1964 comedy drama was produced by Ginger Rogers, who also gives a lacklustre performance as a bordello madam, and her husband William Marshall in the Caribbean in 1964 but withdrawn after its […]
Writer-director David S Ward’s 1982 drama Cannery Row stars Nick Nolte and Debra Winger as baseball player turned marine biologist Doc and feisty floozy Suzy DeSoto. The movie is set in the 1940s, in Cannery […]
Louis Malle’s highly disturbing and controversial American debut with the 1978 Pretty Baby caused quite a few shock waves with its World War One story set in 1917 about a 12-year-old girl Violet (Brooke Shields), […]
Cast against type, Gary Cooper stars effectively as ruthlessly ambitious outsider Brant Royle in director Michael Curtiz’s sparky, surprisingly little-known 1950 film of Victorian Texas tobacco-growing folk who spend most of their time wrecking marriages, […]
Co-writer/ director Luis Buñuel and screen-writer Jean-Claude Carrière rework the novel by Joseph Kessel and deliver one of Buñuel’s undoubted masterwork movies in this sleek and provocative 1967 drama. Catherine Deneuve is on dazzling form […]
Shelley Winters (Shirley Schrift), so great in A Place in the Sun (1951), The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and Lolita (1962), has a bad time as legendary Roaring Twenties New York City bordello madam Polly Adler in […]