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Director Robert J Flaherty’s famous 1922 black and white silent film documentary about the hardships experienced by an Eskimo (Inuit) family living in the Arctic Circle is an admirable, enduring achievement, especially given the obvious problems […]
The vivaciously funny 1942 comedy film Road to Morocco finds Bing Crosby and Bob Hope off on their third ‘Road to …’ skylark, a wild spoof of all the Arabian movies ever made. Dorothy Lamour […]
Producer-director Morton DaCosta’s rousing 1962 film version of the delicious all-time-great hit musical is a stupendous showcase for the talents of the much missed Robert Preston, who always performed with the force of 76 trombones. It […]
Director Ida Lupino’s tense and compelling 1953 film noir The Hitch-Hiker has two fishing-trip travellers Roy Collins and Gilbert Bowen (Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy) leaving their wives and picking up the sinister hitch-hiker Emmett Myers (William Talman), a […]
Robert Mitchum gives a legendary performance as a one-time private eye, caught between a mobster (Kirk Douglas) and a femme fatale (Jane Greer), in the brilliant 1947 film noir classic Out of the Past [Build […]
Director Fritz Lang’s 1953 humdinger of a film-noir classic crime thriller The Big Heat sees the director and his actors shooting with all guns blazing. Glenn Ford stars as tough, maverick cop called Detective Sergeant […]
With a fine screenplay by Frank S Nugent based on the factually based novel by Alan Le May, this 1956 all-time great John Ford movie The Searchers is simply one of the best Westerns ever. […]