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The polished 1960 Hitchcock-style thriller film Midnight Lace stars Doris Day, exquisitely gowned by Irene, who was Oscar nominated for Best Color Costume Design. Day plays a terrified married American heiress, threatened by an anonymous […]
Director Henry Hathaway’s 1956 suspense thriller is slick and enjoyable if slightly over-extended feeling at 103 minutes. Nigel Balchin adapts the novel by author Philip MacDonald, writer of the screenplays for Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) and […]
Producer-director Stanley Donen’s 1958 British-made Technicolor romantic comedy Indiscreet is glitzy fluff, filmed where it is set in London. It finds the ideal star pairing in Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, who put polish on the piece. Grant plays […]
Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell’s clever 1970 gender-bender teaser film Performance is a stunning eye-opener and turned out to be a milestone of British cinema with its provocative mix of perverted sex and violence. James […]
Legend offers Tom Hardy an eagerly and exuberantly taken chance for a bravura star turn in twin roles as 1960s identical twin East End gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray (‘We’re talking about being gangsters, that’s […]
Michelangelo Antonioni came to London in 1966 to make his multi-layered puzzle thriller film Blowup. David Hemmings plays a modish fashion photographer who pictures blonde Jane Birkin romping around with brunette Gillian Hills. Esteemed Italian […]
Writer-director Reg Traviss’s London gangster thriller is quite exciting, well-constructed and stylish, with some thrillingly staged smash and grab sequences. Gregg Sulkin stars as Dee is an anarchic street-artist confronting the system, Josh Myers plays his […]