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Christopher Lee calls Penny and the Pownall Case ‘a Z-feature, a truly grisly free-for-all’. Director Slim Hand’s engaging 1948 British second feature mystery film Penny and the Pownall Case, starring Ralph Michael, may be obscure but […]
Director Franklin J Schaffner’s minor 1967 British spy thriller The Double Man stars Yul Brynner in two roles (high-ranking CIA widower Dan Slater and his lookalike enemy agent, Kalmar). A large part of the action […]
Burt Lancaster stars as recently appointed FBI agent Steve Buchanan who teams with attractive UN secretary–translator Ann Winslow (Dorothy McGuire) to investigate aged New Yorker William ‘Skipper’ Miller, aka fake-dollar-bill fraudster Mister 880 (Edmund Gwenn), […]
Director Edward Sedgwick’s 1948 slapstick comedy A Southern Yankee [My Hero] stars Red Skelton as Aubrey Filmore, a silly St Louis bellhop who becomes a silly Yankee spy after being mistaken for The Grey Spider […]
The amusing double act of Nicolas Cage and Shirley MacLaine give a big lift to co-writer/ director Hugh Wilson’s bumpily constructed 1994 Guarding Tess, which tells the tale of a hapless US secret service agent, […]
Robert Vaughn and David McCallum star as U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, who are whisked across the world in their daring quest to gain control of a deadly weapon being used in a […]
Director David M Evans’s laid-back, entertaining 1996 Disney comedy stars Sinbad, who is amusing as ex-boxer Sam Simms, the agent in charge of Luke Davenport (Brock Pierce), the difficult, troublesome, 13-year-old son of the US […]