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Director Jean Negulesco’s lumbering and uninspired 1955 The Rains of Ranchipur is a slow and slapdash retread of 1939’s The Rains Came, with the young Richard Burton all at sea, miscast in Tyrone Power’s old […]
Writer-director Val Guest’s realist 1963 British drama is based on Trevor Dudley Smith [Elleston Trevor]’s novel The Pillars of Midnight and tells an intriguing story set in Bath, Somerset, England, at the time of a smallpox […]
The 1940 romantic drama film Vigil in the Night stars screen comedienne Carole Lombard, who is outstanding in a serious role as Anne Lee, a devoted young nurse in an English hospital. Director George Stevens’s […]
Director Richard Boleslawski’s 1934 romantic drama stars the great Greta Garbo, unique Thirties superstar, who graces this plush but soapy drama with her lustrous presence in a lesser vehicle but still interesting from her best […]
Director John Ford’s 1936 historical drama makes a useful change of pace for the Westerns director, as he deals with his humanitarian tale of the unfair sentencing to life imprisonment in jail of Doctor Samuel […]
André Morell stars as Sir James Forbes, the old professor who sets about to investigate The Plague of the Zombies (1966), and Jacqueline Pearce (aka Servalan) plays Alice Thompson, who turns out to be an […]
Director Elia Kazan’s thought-provoking New Orleans 1950 film noir chase thriller is sizzlingly raw and realistic. It stars Richard Widmark as a medical-health-official doctor and Paul Douglas as a world-weary police captain who lead a life-or-death […]