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Director Gordon Douglas’s 1962 musical romantic comedy is a slushy vehicle for Elvis Presley, with five unmemorable songs. Presley as Toby Kwimper? I don’t think so! Charles Lederer’s slack screenplay is taken from Richard C […]
This tale about Communists holed up in a New England town and plotting to take over the US via germ warfare was originally a story about Adolf Hitler hiding in a town after the war, […]
Co-writer/ director Gilles Coulier’s drama is incredibly dark, dour, raw and bleak, but a true humanity and a deeply hidden central core of warmth are to be found here. If there is a laugh anywhere, it […]
With director John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and Halloween (1978) both profitably remade, it inevitably comes the turn of remaking his daft and unconvincing 1980 spook chiller The Fog. With the original being so feeble, there […]
Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1954 interesting but misfiring would-be comedy is set in a town symbolically called Progress, Arkansas, where a beautiful millionairess called Corby Lane (Jean Simmons) goes home to the place she was brought […]
So the advertising is a major help here. What we have in director George Archainbaud’s creaky but enjoyable 1930 romantic adventure movie is ‘Rex Beach’s Sledge-Fisted Romance of the Great Alaskan Salmon Run.’ Wallace Smith adapts the […]
Director Victor Fleming’s 1937 MGM movie of the novel by Rudyard Kipling is a bit creaky, dated and faded now, but it is still very enjoyable and entertaining thanks to the well-told, rattlingly good yarn, […]