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Director Menahem Golan’s 1979 drama film The Magician of Lublin stars Alan Arkin, Louise Fletcher, Valerie Perrine, Shelley Winters, and Lou Jacobi, and is based on the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The Magician of Lublin […]
Most capable, attractive performances from Loretta Young and David Niven as sparring spouses enliven director Tay Garnett’s appealingly zany, above-routine 1939 screwball comedy film Eternally Yours. Young plays an American heiress married to Niven’s British […]
Grant Naylor (John Trent) is unhappy because the woman he loves wants to marry another. On the evening before her marriage to scoundrel Stephen Danby (Roland Drew), Ann Randall (Marian Marsh) consults The Great Gambini […]
Director Richard Quine’s 1953 Columbia Pictures Technicolor fantasy adventure film Siren of Bagdad is set in the medieval Persian Empire and boasts nice stars in Paul Henreid, Patricia Medina and Hans Conried. Henreid said that Quine […]
Director Roger Spottiswoode’s debut is the 1980 Canadian horror thriller Terror Train, a cultish, above-average stalk and slash movie, featuring Jamie Lee Curtis – then the cinema’s best screamer since Fay Wray – as one […]
Robin Askwith’s Confessions of a Window Cleaner has an ancestor and a rival. Director John Paddy Carstairs’s 1956 silly slapstick comedy Up in the World stars Norman Wisdom as window cleaner Norman, who breaks panes, falls […]
Director Peter K Smith’s 1985 film No Surrender is a tough, dark-shaded comedy from writer Alan Bleasdale, who is after a metaphor for the Irish troubles in his tale of a murky Liverpool nightclub where […]