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Director Hugo Fregonese’s 1954 Panoramic Productions/ 20th Century Fox Western film The Raid stars Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin, Tommy Rettig and Peter Graves. It is shot in beautiful Technicolor colour by […]
Ann-Margret stars in producer-director George Sidney’s Technicolor comedy The Swinger (1966) as Minnesota hick girl Kelly Olsen, who fakes sizzling memoirs to make a hit with magazine editors, particularly Ric Colby (Tony Franciosa) and Sir Hubert Charles […]
Curd Jürgens stars as Major David Brand, a jittery, cowardly leader awarded a medal he did not merit for leading a British commando raid on Rommel’s desert fortress headquarters, and Burton as his number two, Captain Jimmy Leith, an […]
Director Burt Kennedy’s 1966 movie brings Yul Brynner’s welcome return as hired gun Chris Adams in this acceptable but less magnificent sequel to perhaps everybody’s favourite Western, The Magnificent Seven (1960). The trouble is that […]
Director Billy Wilder makes the bold decision to film a musical by dumping all the original popular Broadway show’s songs for his 1963 comedy Irma La Douce. Apparently he did not feel comfortable staging song […]
Both co-writer/director Jean-Pierre Melville and star Roger Duchesne knew the underworld at first hand, and it clearly shows here in their classic hardboiled 1955 French crime thriller, which provided inspiration for the French New Wave […]
The superlative 1960 heist caper film The League of Gentlemen stars Jack Hawkins as a disgruntled former British military officer who assembles a gang of disgraced military gentlemen for a daring bank job. Renowned producer-director […]
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