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Director John Sturges’s 1951 film noir crime drama The People Against O’Hara stars Spencer Tracy as James Curtayne, an over-the-hill lawyer with a drink problem who, though more or less retired, gets back in the […]
The overwhelming, unexpected success of Easy Rider allowed Peter Fonda the chance to direct himself, as Harry Collings and Warren Oates as Arch Harris, in the ‘meaningful’ 1971 Western The Hired Hand as drifters toying […]
Director Stuart Cooper’s 1977 Canadian neo noir thriller The Disappearance is a sleekly made and intriguing upmarket mystery, based on Derek Marlowe’s novel Echoes of Celandine, starring Donald Sutherland as a contract killer called Jay […]
In 1962 Jean-Luc Godard shot Vivre Sa Vie [My Life to Live] (1962) over four weeks in Paris for $40,000, and it became his first commercial success since À bout de souffle [Breathless] (1960), ending up […]
Co-writer/ director Tobe Hooper’s 1989 movie is a camp, rather silly sci-fi horror thriller from the iconic horror maestro. It boats a typically, enjoyable overwrought star performance from the eternally twitchy Brad Dourif as Sam, […]
Co-producer/ co-writer/ director Jean-Jacques Annaud’s entertaining 2004 adventure is set in French Indochina in the 1920s. Guy Pearce stars as a hunter called Aidan McRory who has a fight on his hands when he unites […]
The 1957 action biopic The True Story of Jesse James takes a fresh look at the Western tale of the James Brothers, and has strong work from Robert Wagner (as Jesse James) and Jeffrey Hunter […]
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