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Director Philip Leacock’s 1962 Tamahine is a fusty, mild, old-style romantic comedy with plenty of routine, school-set and culture-clash laughs, based on the novel by Thelma Nicklaus. But it rolls along pleasantly and humorously, though […]
‘His wife just left him for another man. And so did his boyfriend.’ Alan Bates gives a dazzling performance in director Harold Pinter’s brilliant 1973 drama film Butley, based on Simon Gray’s masterwork play. ‘His […]
Director Steve Carver’s 1976 movie Drum is an embarrassing, lurid, stop-at-nothing sequel to the 1975 Mandingo, based on the follow-up novel by Kyle Onstott, about the misadventures of an 1860 New Orleans whorehouse slave called […]
Director Don Sharp’s excellent 1974 British crime action thriller Callan [The Neutralizer] is an imaginatively developed and extended version of the opening programme of Edward Woodward’s popular TV show from 1967, about a lonely, ruthless […]
Director Henry Hathaway’s 1940 historical adventure saga of pioneering Mormons and the founding of Salt Lake City stars Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell and Brian Donlevy, with Dean Jagger on good form as Brigham Young, the […]
‘A story of fast cars… reckless women… and sudden danger… and a guy who loved all three!’ That will be Tony Curtis aka Johnny Dark. Director George Sherman’s larkish 1954 B-movie racing car melodrama Johnny […]
Sometimes, very rarely, Clint Eastwood surprises audiences by showing that he can be in a romantic, much softer mood, as with The Bridges of Madison County. Here, back in 1973 the Eastwood-directed romance Breezy, with […]