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Director Graham Stark’s 1971 British film The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a compilation of comedy sketches based on the Seven Deadly Sins from a host of the most talented 70s British writers and stars. […]
Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s 1984 British television film Dr Fischer of Geneva stars James Mason, Alan Bates and Greta Scacchi. Graham Greene’s lukewarm novella proves ideal material for a TV movie, at least this TV movie, […]
Director Robert Wise’s 1951 20th Century Fox black and white film noir thriller The House on Telegraph Hill stars Valentina Cortese [aka Valentina Cortesa] as Victoria Kowelska, a Polish concentration camp victim who takes over […]
Director Nicolas Roeg’s fascinating but uneasy 1983 film about the world’s richest man (Gene Hackman), Arctic prospector Jack McCann, who struck gold in 1925. Two decades on, he is a Citizen Kane figure who is having […]
Director Richard Wallace’s intriguing and effective 1947 low-budget B-movie film noir crime thriller stars a sexy Janis Carter as sultry femme fatale Paula Craig, who schemes with married man Steve Price (Barry Sullivan) to commit the perfect robbery […]
Director Akira Kurosawa’s thrilling, marvellous-looking 1985 version of William Shakespeare’s play King Lear is transposed to 16th-century feudal Japan, with the senile old man now a warlord called Lord Hidetora Ichimonji (Tatsuya Nakadai) who cedes his kingdom […]
Director Freddie Francis’s 1967 Amicus chiller is the first of Robert (Psycho) Bloch’s three compendium films of four horror tales. It stars Burgess Meredith, Peter Cushing, Beverly Adams, Jack Palance, Michael Bryant and John Standing. It […]