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A Stranger works to redeem the inhabitants of a London boarding house, in Austrian director Berthold Viertel’s fascinating 1935 British drama film The Passing of the Third Floor Back, starring Conrad Veidt, Anna Lee, Rene […]
Director Rod Daniel’s 1991 The Super is a hesitant comedy with a good premise, some solid laughs and a fine Joe Pesci performance as an unscrupulous New York slum landlord, Louie Kritski, who is ordered […]
The 1953 drama The Brute [El Bruto] was filmed fast by Luis Buñuel in Mexico, with intriguing performances and a fiery mood. Buñuel’s complex, heated, highly charged tale is of a none-too-intelligent meat-packing giant, Pedro […]
‘Mr Hardy’s aesthetic nature thrilled at the beauties of circus life – Mr Laurel never got further than the monkey cage.’ After working for a circus for seven weeks of rain and with no business […]
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy upset their suspicious landlord (Edgar Kennedy) and another house-guest (Charlie Hall) when they hide a stray goat in their ‘no pets’ lodgings after they hear that the pet-shop owner thinks that […]
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy evict their dog, Laughing Gravy, when their mean, dog-hating landlord (Charlie Hall) finds him and then spend the rest of the freezing night looking for him. The boys come up with […]
Co-writer/ director David Swift’s 1963 vehicle for Jack Lemmon is a ridiculously silly Swinging Sixties adult sex comedy about a couple, Robin Austin (Carol Lynley) and Dave Manning (Dean Jones), deciding to move in together to […]