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Director Gordon Douglas’s vintage 1954 sci-fi horror thriller Them! is still good fun thanks to the taut pace and admirably serious approach he brings to it. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Special Effects. […]
In the first ever instance of a female star directing herself, Ida Lupino directs and stars in this intriguing, involving and revealing 1953 film about a travelling salesman called Harry Graham (Edmond O’Brien) who is […]
Robert Newton gives an entertaining, lip-smacking performance as the sneering, over-law-abiding cop Inspector Javert in this well-acted, thoroughly enjoyable if not especially distinguished screen version of the Victor Hugo tale. Michael Rennie perhaps is less […]
And now for something completely different from director Alfred Hitchcock, whose surprise 1933 movie tells the story of Johann Strauss the Elder and Johann Strauss the Younger. Isn’t this giving sons the same name as their […]
Produced by British International Pictures, The Skin Game (1931) is worth a little look but it is a mostly fairly tedious experience, and one of Alfred Hitchcock’s least interesting movies, probably just of interest for Hitchcock […]
George Cukor’s 1935 romantic comedy adventure film Sylvia Scarlett stars Katharine Hepburn the title role of a female con artist who disguises herself as a boy to escape the police. Director George Cukor’s 1935 romantic […]
In a fondly remembered performance that won him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar, a perfectly cast Edmund Gwenn is a twinkling miracle as merry old Kris Kringle in this delicious 1947 Christmas fantasy film about […]