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Director Lesley Selander’s lusty 1955 Technicolor Western film Fort Yuma stars Peter Graves, Joan Vohs, John Hudson and Joan Taylor. It found itself in a censorship row, and many violent scenes had to be cut. […]
Shop owner Logan Stuart (Dana Andrews) clashes with slimy financier George Camrose (Brian Donlevy), after the latter’s fiancée Lucy Overmire (Susan Hayward) falls for the former and one of Donlevy’s bank clients is killed. The […]
Director Barry Shear’s 1972 Across 110th Street stars Anthony Franciosa as Mafia man Nick D’Salvio, who retaliates furiously when small-time thieves Jim Harris (Paul Benjamin) and Joe Logart (Ed Bernard) steal $300,000 of his Italian […]
Mike Leigh tells the story of the notorious 1819 Peterloo Massacre, ensuring painstaking period re-creation and a strong, clear political message. Writer-director Mike Leigh tells the alarming story of the notorious 1819 Peterloo Massacre where […]
Rousing performances from Walter Matthau as an obsessed San Francisco police detective and Bruce Dern as his boorish, annoying new partner enliven Stuart Rosenberg’s energetic, exciting 1973 cop thriller The Laughing Policeman. Rousing performances from […]
Director Michael Curtiz’s tremendous 1936 gung-ho action adventure film is supposedly based on Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem about the British army’s heroic cavalry charge into disaster at Balaklava in the Crimean War in 1854. ‘Half […]
La Reine Margot [Queen Margot] is a riveting French historical melodrama that has its centrepiece as the 24 August 1572 St Barthomew’s Day Massacre, which is chillingly and magnificently staged like the mass revenge slayings in The Godfather. […]