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Asked to make his directorial debut by longtime producer friend A C Lyles, James Cagney takes his one and only walk behind the cameras to direct this carefully made, fairly successful and effective American film noir version of Graham […]
John Wayne’s first starring role in a B-Western is the first of six that he made for release by Warner Bros. A young, fresh-faced 25-year-old Wayne plays John Drury, who rescues Duke the white stallion, the […]
Director Richard O Fleischer’s 1948 Bodyguard is a tough, taut and tense little Forties B-movie thriller, very fine of its type. It is an outstanding and excellently handled film noir who-done-it. Lawrence Tierney stars as […]
Director Martin Ritt’s 1959 romance The Black Orchid has good stars in Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn and Ina Balin and plenty of talent behind the cameras to try to make it work. But still it […]
Director Anatole Litvak’s star-heavy, serious-minded 1967 wartime-set whodunit is based on a novel by Hans Hellmut Kirst, in which a Polish prostitute is killed in Warsaw in 1942 by a man dressed as a Nazi general. […]
Director Anthony Pelissier’s 1953 British film Personal Affair stars Leo Genn as Mr Barlow, a married Latin-language teacher as a British school who is the object of the infatuated affections of one of his pupils, 17-year-old Barbara […]
Given the wealth of material available in the legends surrounding these real-life characters, director William Castle’s 1954 movie is an unnecessarily dull Western about the trio of famous gunslingers Bat Masterson (George Montgomery), Doc Holliday […]