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Paulette Goddard stars in Irving Rapper’s 1949 American black and white film noir drama film Anna Lucasta as the wayward, sexy daughter of a greedy, predatory Polish-American immigrant farm family. Paulette Goddard stars in Irving […]
Writer-producer-director Charles Martin’s 1956 film Death of a Scoundrel stars George Sanders as scoundrel Euro-conman Clementi Sabourin (‘our plan is to buy companies that are in financial trouble and then build them up’), who steps […]
Director Arnold Laven’s 1965 film The Glory Guys is a sturdy Sam Peckinpah-scripted glossy Western about an ill-prepared US cavalry attack on the Sioux. Tom Tryon stars as Captain Demas Harrod, the soldier unwilling to send […]
Writer-director Jerzy Skolimowski’s 1982 British drama Moonlighting is a fascinating allegorical piece about deceit and theft, with a sterling performance by Jeremy Irons as contractor Nowak, the leader of a small band of Polish workers […]
‘Somewhere along a thousand miles of barbed wire border the American dream has become a nightmare.’ There is plenty of tough action in director Jerrold Freedman’s good-enough 1980 crime thriller Borderline, with Charles Bronson as […]
Writer-director Gus Van Sant’s hilarious 1986 fable of illicit love and muddled lifestyles Mala Noche stars Tim Strecter as gay shop clerk Walt Curtis, who falls head-over-heels for a teenaged illegal Mexican migrant worker, Johnny Alonzo […]
Producer-director Arne Glimcher’s brilliant, beguling 1992 musical drama The Mambo Kings is the musical film as a style object. Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas star in a soulful love story with music about two brothers […]