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MGM dump conscientious objector Lew Ayres… ‘Tops for excitement! A lovely girl’s happiness threatened… Dr Gillespie’s life at stake… and a maniacal killer stalks the corridors of a great hospital!’ Director Harold S Bucquet’s 1942 […]
The 1964 black and white romantic and political drama film Before the Revolution [Prima della Rivoluzione] is an early tour-de-force by the young writer-director Bernardo Bertolucci. It demonstrates his cinematic brilliance, mixing the political with […]
Rhonda Fleming called Mervyn LeRoy’s 1958 drama film Home Before Dark her favourite role, saying: ‘It was a marvellous stretch’. Jean Simmons, Dan O’Herlihy and Efrem Zimbalist Jr also star. It is written by Eileen […]
John Cassavetes’s savage dissection of the American family, the brilliant 1974 drama film A Woman Under the Influence, stars his wife Gena Rowlands as a disintegrating housewife and mother. Writer-director John Cassavetes’s savage dissection of […]
Anthony Sher stars in director Philip Saville’s grotesque and repellent 1985 British black comedy Shadey about a broke car mechanic, Oliver Shadey (Sher), who uses his mind-reading powers to pay for a sex-change operation. Fine […]
Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1947 British noir crime drama The October Man is an acceptably delivered, very watchable British murder mystery, with a good role for John Mills as Jim Ackland, a brain-damaged amnesiac, afflicted […]
Director Tony Bill’s 1990 comedy Crazy People stars Dudley Moore as Emory, an advertising executive who goes crazy and ends up in a mental institution where the patients are of course saner than the staff. […]