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Director Richard Thorpe’s 1952 black and white biographical crime drama Carbine Williams stars James Stewart, who is effectively cast as David ‘Marsh’ Marshall Williams, an embittered jailed bootlegger, who, in the jail tool-shop, invents a new gun […]
Director Raoul Walsh’s ripsnorting 1952 Technicolor RKO Radio Pictures buccaneer movie Blackbeard, the Pirate was first conceived as a Boris Karloff vehicle, and then for Charles Laughton, but Robert Newton finally took command, staggering hugely entertainingly […]
Director Michael Elliott’s 1983 TV movie King Lear stars Laurence Olivier in his last great gasp as the Shakespearean royal father, more sinned against than sinning, a role he was so desperate to record that […]
The 1956 film noir crime drama Julie stars Doris Day, Louis Jourdan and Barry Sullivan. It was nominated for two Oscars: Best Screenplay and Best Song. Writer-director Andrew L Stone’s 1956 black and white film […]
Sophia Loren was blacklisted in Arab countries after playing a Jewish woman in Judith (1966). Director Daniel Mann’s 1966 drama Judith [Conflict] stars Sophia Loren, Peter Finch and Jack Hawkins but does not have much […]
MGM’s 1932 romantic comedy drama film Polly of the Circus pairs Marion Davies with Clark Gable as a young priest in one of his few real turkeys. Director Alfred Santell’s 1932 MGM romantic comedy drama […]