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As director or screenwriter, witch-hunt victim Abraham Polonsky was the auteur of three of the great film noirs: Body and Soul (1947), Force of Evil (1948) and Odds Against Tomorrow (1959). McCarthy witch-hunt victim Abraham […]
Director Gary Sinese’s 1992 honourable big-screen version of John Steinbeck’s tragic story drama from his famed novella Of Mice and Men stars John Malkovich as the sweet, simple, childlike Lennie Small, the over-sized, mentally disabled […]
Sadly, Sidney Toler’s reign as Charlie Chan and his film career ended with a rather dull, thudding whimper with director Howard Bretherton’s 1946 comedy crime mystery The Trap, a slackly handled story of strangulations and revenge […]
Director Steve Carr’s jolly, quite entertaining, easy-going 2001 sequel to the 1998 Doctor Dolittle remake, Doctor Dolittle 2, brings Eddie Murphy back as Doctor John Dolittle MD, who must save a forest from nasty, greedy […]
Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1942 movie Cairo is a spy comedy, though MGM advertised it as a ‘BIG ROMANCE WITH MUSIC’. It stars Robert Young as an American news reporter called Homer Smith […]
Director Phil Karlson’s excellent 1957 black and white film noir crime thriller The Brothers Rico is taken from a Georges Simenon novel called Les Frères Rico, and stars Richard Conte, James Darren, Dianne Foster, Kathryn […]
Director William Keighley’s 1938 Warner Bros adventure Valley of the Giants stars Wayne Morris and Charles Bickford as lumberjacks Bill Cardigan and Howard Fallon who battle over California’s Redwood trees, when Easterner wood thieves move in […]