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The excellent Roy Marsden gives another impeccable, grave performance as P D James’s sensitive copper Commander Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard, who investigates a macabre murder on England’s Suffolk coast linked to a currency fraud, […]
Lust and the eternal triangle are played out rather well in William Conrad’s 1965 neo-noir dark thriller film Brainstorm, starring Jeffrey Hunter. Producer-director William Conrad’s 1965 neo-noir dark thriller film Brainstorm stars Jeffrey Hunter as a handsome […]
Writer-director Daniel Petrie’s Canadian 1984 coming-of-age drama/ thriller The Bay Boy [Un Printemps Sous La Neige] stars Liv Ullmann, Kiefer Sutherland and Peter Donat. Life is nasty and brutish for 16-year old Donald Campbell (Sutherland) […]
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 […]