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And a funny thing happened to the 1962 Broadway musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum on the way to the screen for this 1966 British screwball comedy. Director Richard Lester […]
Co-writer/ director Fernando Cerchio’s 1961 Italian sword-and-sandal historical drama epic Nefertite, Regina del Nilo [Queen of the Nile] stars Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price and Edmund Purdom, who in 1954 had starred in The Egyptian, which has a similar […]
Director Piero Costa’s 1964 Revolt of the Mercenaries [La Rivolta dei Mercenari] is a lurid and lusty if somewhat mediocre Italian swashbuckler, set during the Renaissance in Friuli, Venezia, in an Italy that was then […]
Set in Italy in 1848, director Phil Karlson’s busy, action-packed and modestly entertaining 1951 period action adventure romp Mask of the Avenger is distantly related to its supposed source in Alexander Dumas’s novel The Count […]
The 1970 Oscar-winning Italian drama film The Garden of Finzi-Continis (Il Giardino dei Finzi Contini) is a marvellous late return to form for director Vittorio De Sica, who revisits the period of his youth to […]
Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell make the ideal star couple for director Frank Borzage, here directing them for the third time in this compellingly romantic, if somewhat mawkish 1928 early sound film Street Angel, which […]
Ah, yes, ‘Terror Beyond Belief’. Dario Argento’s 1982 horror mystery thriller movie (giallo) Tenebre [Tenebrae] delivers the goods in spadefuls in this marvellously scary triumph of style over nasty and often silly content. Ah, yes, […]