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A WW2 passenger ship is torpedoed and six survivors plus the captain of the U-boat that sank the ship make it to a British lighthouse. One of the survivors is a German spy and another […]
Director Francesco Rosi’s 1981 Italian/ French film Three Brothers [Tre Fratelli] stars Philippe Noiret, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Michele Placido, Charles Vanel and Andréa Ferréol. Vanel is remarkable as the elderly father, comforted by his three grown-up […]
There are deep divisions down in Denver as both sides in the US Civil War try to get the gold, in Jacques Tourneur’s 1955 Great Day in the Morning, an over-serious Western that is full […]
Writer-director Blake Edwards’s 1971 Western film Wild Rovers stars old-timer William Holden from The Wild Bunch and Ryan O’Neal fresh from Love Story as two likeable cowboy ruffians, Ross Bodine and Frank Post, cowhands on […]
‘The flaming drama of a forbidden love that wrecked an empire! ‘ ‘They found a love they dared not touch!’ Ah yes, great! Director Frank Capra’s sexy 1932 beauty-and-the-beast romantic melodrama stars Barbara Stanwyck as […]
Writer-director Stewart Raffill’s prettily photographed 1977 family Western adventure is brisk and capable and just as predictable, as two plucky orphans cross the Rocky Mountains in 1876 to claim their inheritance of a 400-acre Oregon ranch. […]
This now restored 25-minute silent comedy short from 1917 is among writer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s best work, still clever, touching and above all funny after 100 years. He’s a poor new arrival to America, who endures hardships […]