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Writer-director Frank Nesbitt’s 1971 British drama stars Carol White (Poor Cow) as pretty young Dulcima Gaskain, who helps out mean, hard-drinking old farmer Mr Parker (John Mills) by cleaning his farm house. Soon she moves in […]
Director Howard Deutch’s 1995 comedy brings Jack Lemmon (aged 70) and Walter Matthau (75) back as the long-time feuding next-door neighbours in Wabasha, Minnesota in this bright and jolly sequel to their unexpected 1993 hit, […]
Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1954 complex, consistently rewarding adult Western film Broken Lance is basically an unofficial reworking of Edward G Robinson’s House of Strangers (1947) with a heavy debt to King Lear, with Shakespeare’s daughters […]
The unlikely pair of George C Scott and Michael Sarrazin team up to star in the folksy 1967 US small-town comedy film The Flim-Flam Man as an ageing conman and a young army deserter who […]
Director Don Sharp’s sinister 1963 movie The Kiss of the Vampire is a thoughtful and entertaining Dracula-style Hammer horror, with scary sequences and a well-judged good old-fashioned battle between good and evil. Noel Willman, a character […]
Bathsheba Everdene is in love with three blokes – well, sort of, and can’t make up her mid about which one, if any she fancies settling down with, Far from the Madding Crowd in Dorset. It’s the […]