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Director André de Toth’s atmospheric and engrossing 1944 Gothic film noir thriller stars Merle Oberon as troubled orphan Leslie Calvin, who visits her strange Louisiana relatives after she survives a traumatic World War Two ship […]
Director Max Nosseck’s 1945 thriller is an excellent B-movie gangster film Dillinger, which uses imagination and skill to triumph over its low-budget cheapness and enjoys a claim to being humble poverty row Monogram Pictures’ best […]
Tobe Hooper turns Stephen King’s famed 1975 horror novel into the splendidly scary and hugely entertaining 1979 movie Salem’s Lot starring David Soul as writer Ben Mears and James Mason as spooky antique dealer Mr […]
Michael Arlen’s débonair detective The Falcon (Tom Conway) is called in by the secretary of wealthy Gloria Peabody (Esther Howard) to protect her employer’s jewels – and he’s the number one suspect when they go missing and […]
Not a lot of people know this. There were already two movie versions of the F Scott Fitzgerald classic novel even before Robert Redford played Jay Gatsby in 1974 and long before Leonard DiCaprio played […]
Sam Peckinpah’s fascinating, now legendary 1973 Western film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid retells the legend of Sheriff Pat Garrett (James Coburn) hunting down his old friend Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson). Director Sam […]
Director/star Marlon Brando’s legendary 1961 revenge Western is an explosive emotional and visual powderkeg, with a great flavour of the Old West. It was a troubled production but that doesn’t show on screen. Brando took […]