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In 1939 director Rouben Mamoulian films Clifford Odets’s classic theatre play Golden Boy (with Luther Adler starring on stage) and it becomes a star-making tour de force for William Holden as a prizefighter Joe Bonaparte, […]
Alex Cox co-writes (with Abbe Wool) and directs Sid and Nancy (1986), an exceptionally powerful and exciting punk rock cult classic about the life of Sid Vicious, bassist with the British punk rock band the Sex […]
Husband-and-wife writing team Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon’s screenplay for director George Cukor’s 1952 feminist sports comedy with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn is a quiet winner. It is the seventh of the nine films to […]
Heavenly aide Edward Everett Horton mistakenly despatches a boxer called Joe Pendleton (Robert Montgomery) up to the celestial resting place 50 years too early on the very eve of becoming world boxing champ. Although he’s […]
Airport is rightly considered by many to be the grandfather of the disaster movie genre as the precursor to later epic Seventies disaster films. In a dramatic 12 hours, the twin hazards of a severe […]
MGM’s gripping, moody 1949 film noir crime thriller Tension stars Richard Basehart as a timid pharmaceutical expert who plots to assume a fake identity and kill the boyfriend of his brassy, faithless wife (Audrey Totter). […]
The hit 1976 musical film A Star Is Born stars Barbra Streisand in her prime and Kris Kristofferson in graceful support, both Golden Globe Award winners. Barbra won an Oscar for Best Song. Co-writer/director Frank Pierson’s […]