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Directors Charles Sturridge and Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s monumental and magnificent 1981 Brideshead Revisited is Granada Television’s sumptuous adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel about England’s decadent and declining upper-class between the world wars, made in 11 episodes. […]
Director Roberto Faenza’s fascinating 1983 Italian crime thriller Order of Death [Cop Killer] [l’assassino dei poliziotti] [Corrupt] is a tautly made and intriguingly written thriller based on Hugh Fleetwood’s 1977 psychological novel The Order of […]
Whispering Smith (1948) is notable as Alan Ladd’s first Western and first colour film, moving him on from the film noir movies such as This Gun for Hire (1942), The Glass Key (1942) and The Blue Dahlia (1946) and on to Shane (1953). Ladd stars in […]
Director David Burton’s 1933 American pre-Code drama film Brief Moment stars Carole Lombard and Gene Raymond, and is based on the play by S N Behrman. The Depression Era story has a heavily laid-on moral about using your gifts and abilities, whether […]
Producer-director Edward Dmytryk’s ambitious and gripping 1959 adult Western has a strong cast headed by Henry Fonda as a famous cultured gun-slinging killer called Clay Blaisedell, who is hired as lawman by the cowardly citizens […]
Sixties heartthrobs Fabian Forte, Tab Hunter and Peter Brown ride the Hawaiian surf and romance lovelies Shelley Fabares, Barbara Eden and Susan Hart, in director Don Taylor’s frothy and flaky 1964 Ride the Wild Surf, […]
The gory 1985 horror thriller sequel A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge is a cult classic among both horror fans and the LGBTQ community. It is now celebrated as being one of […]