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Director Michael Gordon’s 1960 neo noir mystery crime thriller Portrait in Black is based on a play by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, and stars Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Sandra Dee, John Saxon, Richard Basehart, […]
Maureen Swanson stars in the 1960 crime film The Malpas Mystery, a lively and involving, if fairly routine, British B-movie Edgar Wallace thriller adaptation. Director Sidney Hayers’s 1960 second feature crime film The Malpas Mystery […]
Director George Bloomfield’s 1980 Canadian mystery film Double Negative [Deadly Companion] has its points of interest (mainly the story and cast) but ends up as a rather tepid and overexposed adaptation of Ross Macdonald’s thriller […]
Director Marc Allégret’s 1948 British film Blanche Fury is a handsome-looking, rather Gothic Victorian-style romantic melodrama about a governess Blanche Fury (Valerie Hobson) who, at the bidding of her rich uncle Simon (Walter Fitzgerald), marries […]
Director Lewis Allen’s efficiently written, decently made and quite involving 1950 black and white film noir crime thriller Appointment with Danger stars Alan Ladd as dedicated American Postal Service inspector Al Goddard, who is sent […]
Director Gordon Douglas’s 1952 film The Iron Mistress stars Alan Ladd, who is neatly cast as Jim Bowie, the frontiersman inventor of the twin-edged knife, in this routine, fictionalised fact-based Western biopic. There is romance […]
Writer-director Harry Hook’s 1987 British drama The Kitchen Toto stars Bob Peck, Phyllis Logan and Edwin Mahinda. Mahinda plays a Kenyan boy called Mwangi, who is befriended by a British police chief, John Graham (Peck), […]