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Favraux: ‘Judex.’ Judex: ‘It’s a Latin word meaning judge or avenger.’ Channing Pollock stars as avenging caped crusader Judex, who fights evil banker Favraux (Michel Vitold), in the 1963 French crime thriller film Judex, director […]
Director Jack Haley Jr’s 1970 comedy drama Norwood is an inoffensive but uninspired vehicle for amiable singer Glen Campbell (reteamed with Kim Darby as their reward for appearing in producer Hal B Wallis’s 1969 True […]
Writer-director Norman Krasna’s 1943 black and white Warner Bros movie Princess O’Rourke is a hair-brained, wholly artificial comedy romance, set in New York, with Olivia de Havilland starring as an unhappy princess called Maria, who […]
Director Frank Tuttle’s 1942 crime drama Lucky Jordan is a shaky, unexciting vehicle for Alan Ladd as New York gangster Lucky Jordan, an artful dodger, crook and gambler. He is drafted into the army, deserts, and […]
Director Raoul Walsh’s 1945 film Salty O’Rourke stars Alan Ladd as wide boy gambler Salty O’Rourke along with William Demarest as his buddy Smitty. The duo are in cahoots with an unscrupulous disbarred jockey (Stanley […]
Director Ray Enright’s daffy 1935 comedy Alibi Ike is a good dizzy showcase for the wacky talents of very likeable comic Joe E Brown as Frank X Farrell, an offbeat rookie baseball pitcher who is […]
Topol is an unexpected choice as the 17th-century Italian scientist Galileo Galilei, but, in an intense, dignified star turn, he earns his inclusion in Joseph Losey’s 1975 historical biographical drama film Galileo. Thanks to the […]