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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 […]
Director Frank Oz’s delicious 1988 comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels stars a perfect team in Steve Martin, Michael Caine and Glenne Headly. Caine plays a suave Englishman named Lawrence Jamieson who preys on wealthy widows by posing […]
Kim Darby stars in The Grissom Gang as a 1930s heiress who is kidnapped and comes under the spell of one of her captors (Scott Wilson). Robert Aldrich’s 1971 film of James Hadley Chase’s 1939 […]
Director John Farrow’s taut and moody 1948 little suspense thriller stars Edward G Robinson as a vaudeville theatre psychic turn, phony stage mentalist John Triton, who acquires powers of precognition and predicts that a troubled […]
Writer-director Sidney Gilliat re-pairs the hit young star-player team from The Family Way (1966) and Twisted Nerve (1968), Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett, for another creepy thriller, a heavily reworked 1972 film version of a well-regarded Agatha Christie […]
Director Jean Yarbrough’s stale 1946 horror thriller stars June Lockhart as young heiress Phyllis Allenby, whose aunt Martha Winthrop (Sara Haden) convinces her that she has come under the influence of a family curse and is […]
Stephen Frears’s delectable and enchanting biopic tells the story of middle-aged New York socialite Florence Foster Jenkins, a woman who would never let a little thing like having a terrible singing voice get in the way of her […]