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Director Felix E Feist’s 1952 adventure movie The Big Trees stars Kirk Douglas as timber baron John Fallon, the money-grabbing lumberman out to chop down California’s beautiful giant sequoia redwood trees, in this ecologically sound […]
In perhaps his finest comedy, a deliciously on-form W C Fields plays a henpecked New Jersey general store owner called Harold Bissonette, who is having a hard time, what with Baby Dunk (Baby LeRoy), the annoying […]
Producer-director Gilbert Cates turns a 1964 flop play by Robert Anderson into a showcase for a group of powerhouse performances in his 1970 drama I Never Sang for My Father. It is a guarantee of […]
A 1924 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Sidney Howard, beautiful Carole Lombard and the great Charles Laughton come together and produce top director Garson Kanin’s interesting if less than awe-inspiring 1940 RKO Radio Pictures movie. Laughton plays […]
The scrappy 1994 third Beverly Hills Cop movie is by turns off-puttingly violent and stupidly slapstick, though it is helped along with capable, slick direction from John Landis and the thinly appealing, lightly professional performances. […]
Director Don Siegel’s masterly 1954 prison drama is low on budget but high on social concern and urgency as a plea for reform of the American prison system and conditions in US jails. It is […]
Dwayne Johnson stars as hard-man lifeguard Mitch Buchannon, who clashes with brash, conceited new beach boy recruit Matt Brody (Zac Efron). But then together they uncover a criminal plot by drugs villainess Victoria Leeds (Priyanka Chopra). Yes […]