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Director Anthony Mann teams up with James Stewart again for the 1952 classic Western Bend of the River [Where the River Bends], with a slew of convincing performances, an impressive Technicolor production and plenty of […]
George Marshall’s classic 1939 black and white movie Destry Rides Again will always be regarded as the definitive version of the famous Max Brand story. Yet ironically it bears no relation to Brand’s popular novel […]
Director George Cukor’s 1940 ultra-smart romantic comedy film The Philadelphia Story is one of Hollywood’s most glorious, with three of its all-time great stars at their most effortless, alluring, dazzling best. The movie represents the […]
Legendary director Frank Capra’s perfectly honed, much-loved 1939 classic Mr Smith Goes to Washington is a politically-minded comedy drama follow-up to his triumphant 1936 Gary Cooper movie Mr Deeds Goes to Town. Mr Smith centres […]
Producer/director Robert Aldrich’s 1965 film The Flight of the Phoenix finds him on safe ground with a highly enjoyable and satisfying, character-driven disaster-survival movie, in which an aircraft is downed when a sudden sandstorm shuts […]
Director Michael Winner’s 1978 reworking of Howard Hawks’s 1946 film noir masterpiece The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall makes the twin cardinal errors of updating the yarn to the Seventies and misplacing […]
Director Jerry Jameson’s 1977 third Airport movie is a lumbering disaster movie epic that is completely preposterous and often unintentionally funny. But it is still fairly exciting and somewhat enjoyable. It sends a luxury 747 airliner […]