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The 1945 thriller film The Scarlet Clue stars Sidney Toler in a fair, busy, tautly handled Charlie Chan series entry with Earl Derr Biggers’s Oriental detective chasing World War Two foreign agents to get back […]
Claude Rains stars in Warner Bros’ enjoyably far-fetched 1947 film noir mystery movie The Unsuspected as a suave radio host turned murderer who investigates his own perfect murder on his crime mystery show. Joan Caulfield […]
Writer-director-star Robert Duvall’s 1997 drama is extraordinary, motored by Duvall’s barnstormingly powerful performance as an extremely egotistical religious man, the Texas preacher Euliss ‘Sonny’ Dewey, who sets himself above everything and everybody. His life falls […]
James Stewart is on his most entertaining, relaxed and appealing form in director Walter Lang’s extremely pleasing, little-known 1950 satirical comedy with the movie industry clearly enjoying taking sideswipes at its then enemy – radio! […]
Writer-director Terence Davies’s lovely 1992 British labour of love film The Long Day Closes is his first since his 1988 Distant Voices, Still Lives, and is the third film in his entrancing autobiographical trilogy. Leigh […]
Director Michael Ritchie’s lively and funny 1988 comedy is packed full of amusing lines and scenes in the well-honed screenplay by Steven Kampmann, Will Porter and Sean Stein, based on the novel by Ken Kolb. […]
Director Busby Berkeley’s pleasing 1940 musical is a pleasant re-run for the talented team from Babes in Arms (1939), keeping only George Gershwin’s title song from his 1928 Broadway show. In a supposedly new story that […]