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Director Charles H Rogers [Charley Rogers]’s excellent, first rate 1934 short film Them Thar Hills stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy on around their best form, with a fine support cast to back them. The […]
A Hollywood film company arrives in a Peruvian village to shoot a Western about Billy the Kid (Dean Stockwell) in director Dennis Hopper’s 1971 The Last Movie, a high-flown allegorical fantasy drama in which he also […]
British actor-producer David Hemmings went down under, to New Zealand, that is, to direct the good-looking if undemanding and largely fumbled 1981 action adventure movie Race for the Yankee Zephyr [Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr] […]
Director Richard Wallace’s 1947 movie stars John Wayne as Johnny Munroe, a youngish American railroad engineer taken on in South America to build a mountain railroad tunnel in a dangerous route through the Andes by tycoon Frederick […]
Director George Pan Cosmatos’s game, high-spirited 1979 British war caper is endearingly daft hokum from Lord Grade just before Raise the Titanic sank his company, ITC, with an all-star cast in a World War Two […]
Director Nicolas Roeg’s fascinating but uneasy 1983 film about the world’s richest man (Gene Hackman), Arctic prospector Jack McCann, who struck gold in 1925. Two decades on, he is a Citizen Kane figure who is having […]
Director Hany Abu-Assad’s relentlessly old-fashioned mix of survival movie and romantic drama The Mountain Between Us limps along enjoyably enough, though without much conviction or credibility. It has some tense, exciting scenes, but it also […]