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Director Ian Sellar’s 1989 British drama film Venus Peter is set on a western isle of Scotland in the 1950s and stars Ray McAnally, David Hayman, Sinéad Cusack and Gordon R Strachan. Venus Peter is […]
Director Fletcher Markle’s 1951 MGM black and white Gothic noir thriller The Man with a Cloak is a sleekly made, very unusual and involving 19th-century Manhattan murder mystery propelled along with an excellent cast, including […]
As the punning title of the 1966 Rank Organisation slapstick comedy Press for Time suggests, Norman Wisdom plays a reporter on a local seaside newspaper at Tinmouth, where he has been hidden away by his grandfather, […]
Director Felix E Feist’s 1936 movie history-making MGM short film Every Sunday features the first notable screen appearances of both upcoming teenage stars Judy Garland (aged 14) and Deanna Durbin (aged 15), who makes her […]
‘You’re never too old to believe in a dream. Or too young to make one come true!’ Director James Foley’s and writer Joseph Stefano’s forgotten heart-warmer fits in between Foley’s Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) and Fear (1996). In the […]
Director Norman Z McLeod’s entertaining 1938 romantic comedy stars the formidable team of Fredric March, Virginia Bruce, Patsy Kelly, Nancy Carroll and Eugene Pallette. March plays Bill Spencer, a single reporter who tries to expose […]
Chris O’Donnell takes the title role, as Jimmie Shannon, a commitment-phobic man who has to marry by the time he is 30 to claim his $100 million inheritance. Drably unfunny and listlessly acted, the story only […]