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Director Lewis Seiler’s 1940 Warner Bros black and white comedy crime drama It All Came True is a virtually unknown Humphrey Bogart movie from just before his best period. Bogart plays a crooked mobster nightclub […]
A hairy homicidal alien zombie stalks Los Angeles ripping off people’s heads and searing them to a crisp with his laser-ray eyes in John ‘Bud’ Cardos’s gory 1979 sci-fi-horror shocker The Dark [The Mutilator] blessed […]
Director Robert Wise’s likeable 1957 MGM black and white and CinemaScope comedy drama This Could Be the Night stars Jean Simmons, Paul Douglas and Anthony Franciosa. Innocent school teacher Anne Leeds (Jean Simmons) takes a […]
Director Harmon Jones’s 1952 Technicolor musical film Bloodhounds of Broadway is based on a Damon Runyon story, which provides a good chance for Mitzi Gaynor as little orphan Emily Annie Stackerlee, a country girl who […]
Two 1930s film genres – boxing dramas and backstage musicals – are recreated with a mixture of affection, daft puns and delightful digs at Hollywood in director Stanley Donen’s delicious 1978 comedy Movie Movie. It […]
Robin Askwith’s Confessions of a Window Cleaner has an ancestor and a rival. Director John Paddy Carstairs’s 1956 silly slapstick comedy Up in the World stars Norman Wisdom as window cleaner Norman, who breaks panes, falls […]
French director André Téchiné’s 1986 drama Scene of the Crime [Le Lieu du Crime] [Le Crime] is a dour, sluggish and old-fashioned film about a beautiful cafe owner called Lili Ravenel (Catherine Deneuve) falling for […]