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MGM’s gripping, moody 1949 film noir crime thriller Tension stars Richard Basehart as a timid pharmaceutical expert who plots to assume a fake identity and kill the boyfriend of his brassy, faithless wife (Audrey Totter). […]
Joseph L Mankiewicz’s fine 1953 Hollywood film of Shakespeare’s Roman play Julius Caesar assembles a grand line-up of real actors in John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, James Mason, Louis Calhern and Edmond O’Brien. Writer-director Joseph L […]
Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s masked killer movie is an effective, creepy, clever and stylish reworking and updating of an old horror favourite. It’s just a little bit different with its references to the 1976 original movie, setting it out […]
Director Henry Koster’s romantic 1952 mystery melodrama comes from the novel by Daphne du Maurier, the author of Jamaica Inn, Rebecca and The Birds, all filmed by Alfred Hitchcock. It would have made perfect material […]
Released in 1960, La Vérité [The Truth] was a runaway hit in France with an incredible 5,700,000 spectators and was Brigitte Bardot’s highest grossing film. She described it as her favourite of all her films. […]
Director Jeremiah S Chechik’s 1996 thriller is an awful, boring, suspense-free American remake of the 1955 classic French spine-tingler, Les Diaboliques, using that film’s American title of Diabolique. It completely wastes the ingenious story by Vertigo […]
Director John Ford’s 1960 Western reunites him with star Jeffrey Hunter, who relishes an excellent role as Lieutenant Tom Cantrell. It is the sterling story of a US Cavalry’s hero’s fight for justice. The young […]