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Writer-director Lane Slate’s 1977 TV movie thriller Deadly Game stars Andy Griffith, Mitzi Hoag and James Cromwell. Griffith stars as charming old police chief Abel Marsh, who investigates the deaths of two elderly people caused […]
Director John Badham’s 1973 thriller Isn’t It Shocking? is written by Lane Slate, and stars Alan Alda, Louise Lasser, Edmond O’Brien, Lloyd Nolan, Ruth Gordon and Will Geer. The made-for-television comedy-mystery film first aired on the […]
In difficult circumstances, Ryan O’Neal does well as a blacking-out alcoholic writer, 40-something ex-con Tim Madden, who may have killed during a drunken bender, in this wobbly but always intriguing 1987 movie Tough Guys Don’t […]
Director James Parrott’s 1930 comedy short film Night Owls is the first film to use Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s celebrated theme tune, ‘The Ku-Ku Song’, written by Marvin Hatley. Edgar Kennedy plays a bungling local […]
Sterling Hayden and Gene Barry are ideal, and so is noir favourite Gloria Grahame as bar singer Marianna, in the toughly cast, enjoyable little 1954 crime thriller Naked Alibi, with a moody film noir atmosphere. […]
Eddie Murphy’s energy and charm are severely tested on director Tony Scott’s extremely inferior 1987 sequel to 1984’s great hit Beverly Hills Cop. Predictably, Scott mostly dumps the original’s comedy element in favour of unsubtle strong […]
Fangs ain’t what they used to be. Director Kelly Sandefur’s 2002 feature is a laughably silly horror movie, in which a small town’s residents fight genetically modified killer bats. It stars Whip Hubley, Tracy Nelson […]