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Director Nicholas Ray’s intriguing and unusual 1949 film noir-style mystery melodrama A Woman’s Secret, with hints of Mildred Pierce and All About Eve, is based on a 1946 novel called Mortgage on Life by Vicki […]
Writer-director Alan Parker’s entertaining 1976 British musical burlesque of the vintage American gangster movies Bugsy Malone has children taking all the roles – led by Scott Baio (aged 15) as Bugsy and Jodie Foster (aged […]
Director Stuart Rosenberg’s 1984 comedy is a tastily juicy bite of Eighties Big Apple street life. Vincent Patrick writes this tale of a young New York Italian punk and his hopeless cousin trying to be […]
Director Clarence Brown’s 1932 melodrama movie Letty Lynton is an enthralling, little-known early Joan Crawford vehicle that sees our heroine donning the shoulder pads and cloche hats as Letty Lynton, a lovely wealthy socialite lady […]
Joan Crawford and Anita Page and Dorothy Sebastian return for producer-director Harry Beaumont’s 1930 all-talking follow-up to their silent film successes Our Dancing Daughters (1928) and Our Modern Maidens (1929). Crawford plays the role of Gerry March, a department store mannequin who falls in love […]
Joan Crawford looks a million dollars in Adrian gowns as socialite Marcia Townsend who weds wandering star feller Sherry Warren (Robert Montgomery). But then she flirtatiously flutters around Jim Salston (Franchot Tone, Crawford’s real-life husband), […]
Director Joseph Sargent’s 1984 drama stars James Cagney in his final film and sole TV film. Infirm and at the age of 84, he gives a likeable performance as Joe Moran, a retired, disabled, wheelchair-using […]