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Director Robert Wise’s 1956 biopic drama is the double-Oscar-winning Fifties fight movie classic that turned the 31-year-old Paul Newman into a star. It is one of the great boxing movies. Audiences certainly liked Newman up […]
Helen Hayes won the 1932 Best Actress Oscar for her wild overacting as the newly-wed French country woman Madelon Claudet, who is bullied by her new mother-in-law, after marrying US artist Larry (Neil Hamilton), who […]
Director William Dieterle’s 1944 film, based on a radio play by Charles Martin, stars Ginger Rogers as Mary Marshall, a jailbird on parole for the holidays, who invites battle fatigue shell-shocked GI Sergeant Zachary ‘Zach’ […]
The scandalous 1933 pre-Production Code Depression-era comedy drama film Bed of Roses is a sharp and amusing story of ‘the girl who took a shortcut down the primrose path’. Constance Bennett and Joel McCrea star. […]
Director Mark Robson’s long but satisfying 1958 British drama The Inn of the Sixth Happiness stars Ingrid Bergman, who triumphs over her physical miscasting in a heartwarming turn as Gladys Aylward, the English missionary who […]
Director Paul Wendkos’s 1969 Western stars George Kennedy as hired gun Chris Adams, taking over in Yul Brynner’s rather worn saddle for the second Magnificent Seven sequel, the third in the series after 1960’s The […]
The only real-life escape from the infamous San Francisco island prison of Alcatraz in 1962 provides the true story for director Don [Donald] Siegel’s totally gripping 1979 Clint Eastwood thriller. Three inmates attempt a daring escape […]