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Director Robert Florey’s 1933 Warner Bros American pre-Code melodrama film The House on 56th Street stars Kay Francis as Peggy Martin Van Tyle aka Peggy Stone, a wronged woman sent to prison for 20 years […]
‘The romance that rocked the foundations of an empire…. now lives on the screen!’ Director John M Stahl’s 1937 black and white historical romantic drama Parnell is a tedious, misbegotten biopic of Charles Stewart Parnell, […]
Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal give perhaps the best performances of their careers in producer-director Elia Kazan’s memorable protest movie about the manipulation of the public by the media, the 1957 black and white drama […]
Director Ian Sharp’s 1982 gung-ho British action thriller Who Dares Wins [The Final Option] (1982) is a British SAS (Special Air Service) adventure yarn about tough guys storming in to the American Embassy in London […]
Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker and a young Vivien Leigh kick up a storm over an old Scots lady and a dog licence, in directors Ian Dalrymple and Victor Saville’s 1937 British clever canine caper Storm […]
Steve McQueen’s 2018 cinema version of Lynda La Plante’s masterly 1983 British TV mini-series Widows is both a posh art film and an exciting mainstream heist thriller, but only just. Something is lost on the […]
Co-writer/ director Clare Peploe’s odd 1995 comedy film reworking of a vintage 1944 thriller novel by expert James Hadley Chase called Miss Shumway Waves a Wand is an extremely well crafted, interesting movie but a bit of […]