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Woody Harrelson played the popular Woody Boyd in 200 episodes of the classic TV series Cheers (1985-1993). But beware the perils of trying to move from a hit TV show to the big screen. The […]
Director Stuart Walker’s infamous 1933 American pre-Code black and white Paramount Pictures drama film White Woman stars Charles Laughton, Carole Lombard, Kent Taylor and Charles Bickford. Lombard plays nightclub singer Judith Denning, a young widow […]
Neurotic white woman Lula (Shirley Knight) humiliates black New Yorker Clay (Al Freeman Jr) on a subway train, in director Anthony Harvey’s 1966 drama Dutchman, a riveting, intensely played version of LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)’s […]
Director Fred Schepisi’s 1978 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith stars Tommy Lewis as nice young Australian half-Aborigine Jimmie Blacksmith, who is brought up by bigoted minister the Reverend Neville (Jack Thompson) at the turn of […]
The 1961 British drama film Flame in the Streets stars John Mills as a large company’s union organiser who struggles when his only daughter (Sylvia Syms) announces that she plans to wed her Jamaican boyfriend […]
Director Franco Brusati’s 1974 Bread and Chocolate [Pane e Cioccolata] stars Nino Manfredi as Nino Garofoli, an Italian waiter who quits his home in Sicily for a better life in Switzerland, where, alas, he is […]
Director John Frankenheimer’s second movie The Young Savages (following The Young Stranger in 1957) is a smartly handled, sincere courtroom drama with a lot of social conscience and a small slice of romance. Burt Lancaster […]