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Director Luis Puenzo’s 1989 historical romantic adventure drama stars Jane Fonda as Harriet Winslow, an American spinster who takes a job looking after the children of a wealthy family caught up in the revolution in […]
Writer-director Renoir’s artificial 1956 film with its broad send-up of Polish countess’s suitors such as French radical party candidate Général François Rollan (Jean Marais), dilettante Le comte Henri de Chevincourt (Mel Ferrer) and wealthy boot magnate Hector […]
Richard Basehart stars as the power-mad villain Dr Gregor Hoffman, who acquires a germ warfare lab’s mislaid bottle of a virus (The Satan Bug) that could destroy civilisation, in director John Sturges’s jolly 1965 crime, mystery, […]
This first-class 1962 anti-war film from highly esteemed cult director Samuel Fuller is lustily done with lashings of bloody action. It is set in World War Two in Burma, where the 3,000-strong American unit, Merrill’s Marauders, […]
‘When the bullet turns red… the General will be dead!’ Director Damiano Damiani’s riveting 1967 Italian adult Western with typical spaghetti violence was belatedly introduced to Britain in 1990, thanks to the BBC2 TV Moviedrome […]
Cedric Hardwicke stars as the real-life French-Jewish officer Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who is accused and convicted of spying in 1890s France, after German staff had forged evidence to convict him, ending up doing life on […]
Director Jack Smight’s lame 1967 World War Two-set comedy does not prove a good idea for Paul Newman. In a very rare misfiring performance, he does not impress at all as one-man army Private Harry […]