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Directors George A White and Victor Saville [Phil Victor]’s 1957 film noir crime thriller My Gun Is Quick stars Robert Bray, who plays Mickey Spillane’s hard-hitting hero Mike Hammer in this tough-nosed, plot-heavy mix of murder and […]
Director Tay Garnett’s 1951 MGM black and white film Soldiers Three is a minor-league, though entertaining Gunga Din-style comedy adventure tale, derived from Rudyard Kipling short stories, with Indian location shots from Kim (1950) helping things […]
The 1941 comedy Caught in the Draft stars Bob Hope as a famous vain Hollywood movie star scaredy-cat, who tries to avoid being called up in World War Two, but is drafted into the US […]
Director David Macdonald’s 1950 thriller Cairo Road stars Laurence Harvey, aged 21, at the start of his film career, although already in his fifth film. He supports his friend Eric Portman in an exotically located […]
Director David Butler’s 1935 The Little Colonel stars little Miss Shirley Temple at her best, and includes the famous staircase tap dance sequence between the young heroine and Bill Robinson often seen in clips. As […]
Based on an actual incident, director Edward Dmytryk’s meaty 1966 American Civil War Western saga Alvarez Kelly is firm enough in its staunch liberal-minded principles to stay on course when the unravelling of the plot occasionally […]
The amusing 1937 American mystery thriller film Bulldog Drummond Escapes stars Ray Milland as Captain Hugh ‘Bulldog’ Drummond, who tries to save beautiful heiress Phyllis Clavering (Heather Angel) from a spy organisation. Paramount Pictures’ first […]