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Richard Dix is fine as the tough-nosed private detective Don Gale, who investigates the disappearance of a wealthy young girl, in William Castle’s 1946 film noir Mysterious Intruder, the well-made fifth Whistler film. ‘He had […]
Director John Carpenter’s 1994 American supernatural horror film In the Mouth of Madness is written by Michael De Luca, and stars Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, David Warner and Charlton Heston. Sam Neill stars as insurance investigator John Trent, who visits […]
Wit, suspense and fun also vanish in director Anthony Page’s appalling 1979 remake of the 1938 Alfred Hitchcock classic The Lady Vanishes, with a very bad performance from miscast American star Cybill Shepherd, as a travelling […]
Director George Sluizer’s terrifying 1988 Dutch mystery horror psycho thriller The Vanishing [Spoorloos], based on Tim Krabbé’s novel The Golden Egg with a screenplay by the author, is highly disturbing, even uniquely disturbing, but with […]
Director Joseph McGrath’s daft, Swinging Sixties 1968 British crazy sex comedy The Bliss of Mrs Blossom stars Shirley MacLaine as Mrs Harriet Blossom, the blissful wife of a brassiere maker Robert Blossom (Richard Attenborough), keeping […]
Co-writer/ director Sue Clayton’s 1996 drama The Disappearance of Finbar stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers in his first leading role as young Irishman Finbar Flynn, who vanishes, upsetting his friends. When he resurfaces in Sweden years […]
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 […]