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Guy Green’s commendable 1954 British second feature noir crime film River Beat stars American actress Phillis Kirk and popular British B-movie heart-throb John Bentley. ‘Waterfront Thrills! Director Guy Green’s commendable 1954 British second feature noir […]
Marthe: ‘What’s the matter?’ Jacques: ‘I love you. That’s the matter.’ Writer-director Robert Bresson’s beautiful, miniaturist 1971 French Eastmancolor drama film Quatre nuits d’un rêveur [Four Nights of a Dreamer] is loosely based on the […]
Fools’ Parade (1971) has a good cast in James Stewart, George Kennedy, Kurt Russell, Strother Martin and Anne Baxter, but it is an uninspiring title for a Western. They changed it in the UK to […]
Director Gordon Douglas’s 1952 film The Iron Mistress stars Alan Ladd, who is neatly cast as Jim Bowie, the frontiersman inventor of the twin-edged knife, in this routine, fictionalised fact-based Western biopic. There is romance […]
Tarzan and the Great River (1967) is directed briskly and very competently by Robert Day. It is the penultimate of the five Tarzan movies he made in the Sixties. The great river is the Amazon […]
Director Rudolph Maté’s 1955 movie The Rawhide Years retells one of the usual, standard, regulation B-movie Western plots – a dishonest riverboat gambler sets out to clear his name of the murder of the town’s […]
Peter Ustinov’s Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of a selfish heiress (Lois Chiles) on a Nile steamer, where all are suspects, in the 1978 film Death on the Nile. Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, Maggie Smith […]
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