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The 1974 Mr Majestyk is one of Charles Bronson’s most effective action thrillers thanks to Richard Fleischer’s buzzing direction and Elmore Leonard’s playful but tough original thriller screenplay. It is Bronson’s only cinema movie written […]
Gary Cooper stars in the romantic drama The Wedding Night (1935) as an author called Tony Barrett who is married to Dora (Helen Vinson), and causes chaos in a Polish farming family when he takes a […]
Director Charles Frend’s nicely done but mild 1947 Ealing Studios romantic drama, taken from Sheila Kaye-Smith’s novel Joanna Godden, is set in England in the Edwardian period. It is Romney Marsh, between Kent and Sussex, in 1905. […]
Director Richard Pearce’s 1984 drama Country provides a great showcase for Jessica Lange, who was deservedly Oscar-nominated as Best Actress for this moving, bucolic tale of an Ohio family having trouble surviving and making a […]
Sweet Country is a sweet racially charged Australian Western. Director Warwick Thornton’s obviously ironically named Australian Western, inspired by true events on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, stars Hamilton Morris as middle-aged Aboriginal […]
A 1924 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Sidney Howard, beautiful Carole Lombard and the great Charles Laughton come together and produce top director Garson Kanin’s interesting if less than awe-inspiring 1940 RKO Radio Pictures movie. Laughton plays […]
Director Constantin Costa-Gavras’s 1988 thriller-with-a-message is extremely powerful and gripping, with strong performances and important things to convey about prejudice, even if it is not always as convincing or distinguished as his masterworks Z (1969) and […]