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Based on Conrad Richter’s 1936 novel, director Elia Kazan’s 1947 black and white Western The Sea of Grass represents an effective change of pace for the Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn star team. But years later Kazan […]
Anthony Asquith’s polished but stuffy 1959 British courtroom drama thriller film Libel retells an old story that has not aged too well. But it has an alluring cast – Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland, Paul […]
Director Lewis Allen’s intriguing 1955 film noir Illegal stars Edward G Robinson, Nina Foch, Albert Dekker and Hugh Marlowe. Robinson stars as canny former district attorney Victor Scott, who becomes a crooked lawyer for a […]
From writer- director Mark Herman, the maker of Brassed Off and Little Voice, comes this pleasant and watchable 2000 British footie movie that stumbles just like previous attempts such as Escape to Victory, Best and […]
Francis Ford Coppola’s magnetic 1997 thriller makes its case to win the award for the best film adaptation of a John Grisham legal mystery novel. It’s as tense, atmospheric, characterful and intriguing as they come. […]