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Director Henri Verneuil’s 1954 French charmer The Sheep Has Five Legs [Le Mouton a Cinq Pattes] boasts an Oscar-nominated story and a brio multi-performance in six roles by the great Fernandel. In the story, a […]
Director Delbert Mann’s 1958 movie of playwright Eugene O’Neill’s Desire under the Elms stars Sophia Loren as Anna, who intrudes into a theatrical version of 19th-century New England, marries Ephraim Cabot (Burl Ives) and has […]
The Stationmaster’s Wife is the 111-minute cinema movie version of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 200-minute German TV two-part mini-series Bolwieser, in which the pathetic hero, the boring stationmaster Xaver Bolwieser (Kurt Raab), is dominated by his […]
Director Jack Lee’s 1957 Rank Organisation historical action adventure stars London-born Peter Finch, who returns to Australia, where he was brought up after the age of 10, to play, dashingly and appealingly, the notorious Captain Starlight, […]
Director Joseph H Lewis’s stylish 1946 low-budget noir thriller So Dark the Night stars dashing Steven Geray as Henri Cassin, the Parisian copper who comes a cropper when he takes a takes a rare holiday […]
Matt Keeslar plays Danny, a rebellious teenage boy who is having trouble with his father (Albert Finney), a short tempered Irish rural policeman, in director Peter Yates’s well-crafted, sincere, heart-tugging 1995 slice of Irish baloney. […]
Director/ co-writer Gene Nelson’s 1964 dual role musical has as its main attraction in Elvis Presley sharing 10 songs between two Presleys – one blond, the other dark. But, at the end, the two characters share […]