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John Garfield enjoys an acting field day as mobster Tommy Gordon, the gem-crook gangster who refuses to participate in a Sing Sing prison break because it is his unlucky day, in director Anatole Litvak’s 1940 […]
The 1995 The Horseman on the Roof [Le Hussard sur le Toît] is another French historical winner from Jean-Paul Rappenau, director of the 1990 Cyrano de Bergerac. Olivier Martinez cuts a smashing dash as Angelo […]
Director Richard A Colla’s rumbustious 1972 crime action comedy Fuzz is based on a novel by Evan Hunter (writing as Ed McBain) and stars Burt Reynolds, Jack Weston, Tom Skerritt, Yul Brynner and Raquel Welch. As Boston […]
Ray Milland directs the 1968 film of the British courtroom drama play by Jack Roffey which he had earlier appeared in successfully on Broadway, with Roffey writing his own screenplay. It was filmed at Shepperton Studios, Surrey, England. Milland also […]
The 3 Penny Opera [Die 3 Groschen-Oper] is the adaptation by Bertolt Brecht (story) and Kurt Weill (music) of John Gay’s opera The Beggar’s Opera, in which dashing gentleman thief Mack the Knife (aka Mackie […]
‘I never met a dame yet who wasn’t a nitwit and a lunkhead.’ MGM signed up Paramount studios actress Claudette Colbert to star with their contract artist James Stewart in director W S Van Dyke […]
Director Justus Addiss’s 1958 The Cry Baby Killer stars Jack Nicholson, who makes his promising début as a juvenile delinquent at the age of 21, in this Roger Corman-produced quick flick, advertised as ‘YESTERDAY a […]