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Director Stan Dragoti’s 1972 film Dirty Little Billy is a hard-nosed, darkly comedic revisionist Western vehicle for briefly-popular Michael J Pollard (C W Moss in Bonnie and Clyde, a coincidence since this film is written […]
Director Gérard Oury’s 1969 French crime caper film The Brain [Le Cerveau] is a tepid, too unsubtle and slapstick-toned international Sixties heist comedy, wasting David Niven as a British NATO army colonel (‘The Brain’), who […]
Director Anthony Mann’s taut, fast-paced and exciting 1942 Paramount Pictures low-budget film noir support thriller Dr Broadway stars Macdonald Carey as nice New York City doctor, Dr Timothy Kane, who is forced to turn sleuth […]
Writer-director Norman Krasna’s 1943 black and white Warner Bros movie Princess O’Rourke is a hair-brained, wholly artificial comedy romance, set in New York, with Olivia de Havilland starring as an unhappy princess called Maria, who […]
Director Ray Enright’s daffy 1935 comedy Alibi Ike is a good dizzy showcase for the wacky talents of very likeable comic Joe E Brown as Frank X Farrell, an offbeat rookie baseball pitcher who is […]
Director Berry Gordy’s ridiculous but shamefully amusing 1975 romantic melodrama soap opera Mahogany stars Diana Ross as ambitious Chicago slum girl Tracy Chambers, nicknamed Mahogany (Diana Ross). Tracy goes to fashion school and becomes a […]
Director Richard Lester’s ultra-tense, impressively efficient, and thoroughly enjoyable 1974 Seventies action adventure Juggernaut stars Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings, Anthony Hopkins Shirley Knight, Ian Holm, Roy Kinnear, Freddie Jones, and Clifton James. Sharif […]