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‘Sir John Gielgud’s a Japanese spy… a down-and-out drunk… a wealthy aristocrat and a grandfather punk! Pamela Stephenson’s classy, she’s brassy… a French maid who mixes seduction with deduction.’ Director Rob Cohen’s 1984 Scandalous is […]
Director Vincent Sherman’s 1951 Goodbye, My Fancy stars Joan Crawford, who is miscast in Madeleine Carroll’s stage role in Fay Kanin’s play, as Agatha Reed, a US Congress woman in a love tussle with old […]
Elvis Presley’s last film Elvis on Tour (1972) is ‘a close-up of the birth and life of an American phenomenon’, according to producer-directors Pierre Adidge and Robert Abel (who also made Mad Dogs and Englishmen). […]
Director Allan Dwan’s 1940 Trail of the Vigilantes stars unlikely 30s and 40s Hollywood heartthrob Franchot Tone, in his only appearance in a Western, as Kansas, the frontier newsman going undercover to hunt down a […]
Warner Bros’ typically punchy 1939 film noir crime melodrama Each Dawn I Die stars James Cagney as a reporter framed by a corrupt DA and jailed for manslaughter. He is uniquely paired with George Raft […]
Director John Huston’s 1958 adventure drama The Roots of Heaven is a bumpy ride, in which the intelligent dialogue and messages (based on Romain Gary’s novel) take second place to mediocre adventure. It stars the […]
Director Edward H Griffith’s amusing 1939 screwball romantic comedy Cafe Society stars Fred MacMurray, who is paired in the first of four films with luscious blonde Madeleine Carroll, who plays a headstrong member of wealthy […]