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Mario Bava’s bravura 1967 live-action comic film Danger: Diabolik stars the engaging John Phillip Law as black-clad master thief Diabolik, and rattles along from one hairy adventure to the next. It is a triumph of […]
Director Douglas Sirk’s 1952 comedy features an irresistible star turn by wily performer Charles Coburn as Samuel Fulton, an old millionaire who tests the family of a woman, Harriet Blasidell (Lynn Bari), he once loved […]
Producer-director Ernst Lubitsch brings his famed stylish and witty touch to this much-admired fantasy comedy tale of a 19th-century Casanova called Henry Van Cleve (Don Ameche), who catches the lovely Martha Strabel Van Cleve (Gene Tierney), but is […]
Writer-director Jean-Luc Godard’s deservedly celebrated 1965 French classic borrows its plot from the American thriller genre. Jean-Paul Belmondo, from Godard’s Breathless (À bout de souffle), again stars for the French New Wave maestro as Ferdinand Griffon, ‘Pierrot’ […]
Director Edward Buzzell’s fairly enjoyable 1939 comedy was a turning point for the Marx Brothers, who, ten years after their first feature in 1929 (The Cocoanuts), seem to be starting to coast with this film. At the […]
Mel Gibson is a satisfyingly edgy in director Ron Howard’s tense, robust, well-made 1996 thriller film remake Ransom, with some solid bursts of action. Making a good job of a rather grim part, a satisfyingly […]
Writer-director Preston Sturges’s marvellous 1942 American classic stars Claudette Colbert as a wife called Gerry Jeffers, who runs away from penniless inventor husband Tom Jeffers (Joel McCrea) and takes off for Florida’s Palm Beach. There she soon […]