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Director Clyde A Bruckman and producer Hal Roach’s 1927 Putting Pants on Philip is a swish Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy silent 20-minute two-reeler short film, in which Ollie (as the pompous J Piedmont Mumblethunder) has […]
Director Roy Rowland’s 1954 black and white Rogue Cop is a commendably taut, tough film noir thriller with a neat story and an ideal, well deployed cast. John F Seitz was Oscar nominated for Best Cinematography, […]
Blake Edwards makes a first-rate job of his excellent 1962 San Francisco location-shot suspense thriller Experiment in Terror [Grip of Fear]. Director Blake Edwards is best known for his farcical comedies and especially the Pink […]
Director Kevin Connor’s popular 1976 sci-fi fantasy adventure At the Earth’s Core is the follow-up to his hit The Land That Time Forgot (1974), with the same star, Doug McClure, in a different role. At the Earth’s […]
Richard Todd gives a solid star turn as dogged British colonial district commissioner Inspector Harry Sanders in director Lawrence Huntington’s dully written, freely adapted 1963 remake of Edgar Wallace’s famous 1911 African adventure novel Sanders of […]
Producer-director John Ford’s engrossing and compelling 1958 British thriller Gideon of Scotland Yard [Gideon’s Day] stars an ideally cast Jack Hawkins as harassed plain-clothes police inspector George Gideon of Scotland Yard, who is having quite […]
Writer-director Robert Bresson’s touching and personal 1967 film is the companion piece to his 1966 film Au Hasard Balthazar. Nadine Nortier stars as the alienated French rural teenager Mouchette, who meets poacher Arsène (Jean-Claude Guilbert), […]