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Beware director Arturo Ripstein’s fascinating, dark and gruesome 1996 black comedy thriller Deep Crimson [Profundo carmesí] about the balding gigolo Nicolas Estrella (Daniel Giménez Cacho) and the overweight nurse Coral Fabre (opera singer Regina Orozco) […]
The 1953 drama The Brute [El Bruto] was filmed fast by Luis Buñuel in Mexico, with intriguing performances and a fiery mood. Buñuel’s complex, heated, highly charged tale is of a none-too-intelligent meat-packing giant, Pedro […]
Western cult stars Lee Van Cleef and Tomas Milian give great workouts for their practised, long-polished turns in director Sergio Sollima’s tough-toned 1966 European Western film The Big Gundown [La resa dei conti] about a […]
Director Henri Verneuil’s 1968 Franco-Mexican-Italian co-production Guns for San Sebastian [La bataille de San Sebastian] stars Anthony Quinn, who does his Zorba turn again as Leon Alastray, an escaping outlaw in 18th-century Mexico pretending to […]
Director Ken Annakin’s 1957 black and white thriller Across the Bridge stars Rod Steiger, who came to Britain to play Carl Schaffner, a scared swindler running from the London law ( Noel Willman as Chief […]
Director Gianfranco Parolini’s outstanding 1970 Italian Spaghetti Western film Adiós, Sabata [Indio Black, sai che ti dico: Sei un gran figlio di…] is the second film in Parolini’s Sabata Trilogy, with Yul Brynner replacing Lee […]
The surprise return of Keye Luke as Number One son Lee Chan (alongside Victor Sen Young as Number Two son Tommy Chan) is the main pleasure of director William Beaudine’s minor, feeble, late Charlie Chan […]