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The entertaining 1937 British crime drama film The Green Cockatoo stars John Mills as a song and dance man trying to avenge his brother (Robert Newton)’s death at the hands of vicious crooks. ‘She Lost […]
Phil Silvers plays annoying news photographer Roy Higgins, who gets in the way of private detective Michael Shayne, in Lloyd Nolan’s penultimate film appearance in the series. Director Herbert I Leeds’s 1942 black and white […]
‘The last gasp in chillers!’ Director William Beaudine’s mostly forgotten 1946 post-war black and white horror thriller The Face of Marble stars John Carradine, as the apparently rational but actually mad scientist Dr Charles Randolph, and […]
Director Gordon Douglas’s 1952 film The Iron Mistress stars Alan Ladd, who is neatly cast as Jim Bowie, the frontiersman inventor of the twin-edged knife, in this routine, fictionalised fact-based Western biopic. There is romance […]
Director Francesco Rosi’s 1987 Italy / France / Colombia drama Chronicle of a Death Foretold [Cronaca di una morte annunciata] is a major miscalculation, with some embarrassing work from some big names of cinema. It […]
Director Gordon Douglas’s 1956 romantic adventure movie Santiago stars Alan Ladd and Lloyd Nolan as Cash Adams and Clay Pike, rival gunrunners aboard an old-time paddle steamer at the time of the Cuban war of […]
The original 30-year old franchise got up to Child’s Play 7, and now it’s back and just as dodgy and nasty as ever. Norwegian director Lars Klevberg makes the 2019 horror movie Child’s Play very […]