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Writer-director Jesús Franco’s 1962 Spanish horror movie The Awful Dr Orloff [Gritos en la noche] stars Howard Vernon as Dr Orloff. He is a mad doctor who kidnaps beautiful women to operate on them and […]
Writer-director Stephen Poliakoff ambitiously tries to dig out the roots of the 20th century in the year 1899 (race, religion, feminism) in his 1993 drama film Century, in which young doctor Paul Reisner (Clive Owen) […]
Indian director Satyajit Ray’s return to film-making after illness was this 1989 adaptation of the text of Henrik Ibsen’s classic 1883 play An Enemy of the People [Ganashatru], which is concerned with health – that […]
‘The water’s poisoned. The people are poisoned. The children are poisoned! The water is poisoned!’ – Dr Thomas Stockmann. Ah yes, Steve McQueen versus Henrik Ibsen! Producer-director George Schaefer’s 1978 drama An Enemy of the […]
Director Anthony Asquith’s 1941 Freedom Radio [A Voice in the Night] is a tense, exciting, well-meaning, intelligent British wartime propaganda thriller, in which a Nazi-sympathiser actress, Irena Roder (Diana Wynyard), chums up to Hitler in […]
Director Lewis Milestone’s 1943 romantic wartime drama The North Star is an embarrassing, unreal pro-Soviet propaganda piece on behalf of the post-German invasion American-Russian alliance, about Nazis invading a Russian farming community in the Ukraine […]
The 1990 ‘thrillomedy’ film Arachnophobia stars Jeff Daniels as a nice arachnophobic doctor, Julian Sands as a crazy scientist and John Goodman as a bug exterminator, who fight off an attack of killer spiders at […]