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The highly entertaining and satisfying 1965 British second feature Edgar Wallace Mysteries thriller film Strangler’s Web stars John Stratton, Pauline Munro, Griffith Jones and Gerald Harper. Director John Moxey’s highly entertaining and satisfying 1965 British […]
Director Robert Florey’s 1933 Warner Bros American pre-Code melodrama film The House on 56th Street stars Kay Francis as Peggy Martin Van Tyle aka Peggy Stone, a wronged woman sent to prison for 20 years […]
Co-writer/ director Carl Colpaert’s 1991 film noir crime thriller Delusion stars Jim Metzler, Jennifer Rubin, Kyle Secor, Jerry Orbach, Tracey Walter and Robert Costanzo. Dodgy computer wizard George O’Brien (Metzler), a half-million dollar embezzler from […]
Writer-director George Seaton’s 1945 Technicolor treat film Diamond Horseshoe [Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe] is based on the 1928 play The Barker by John Kenyon Nicholson, which has fun with Freudian psychoanalysis, and stars Betty Grable, […]
Director Franklin J Schaffner’s 1963 romantic drama The Stripper [Woman of Summer] stars the always-admirable Joanne Woodward, who builds up an ungrateful role as Lila Green, a washed-up showgirl/ struggling actress who is dumped by […]
The 1955 love triangle thriller The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing is an atmospheric evocation of a 1906 New York murder scandal. Marilyn Monroe turned the film down and was put on suspension before […]
Director Nick [Nicholas] Grinde’s 1932 drama Shopworn is a typical early Thirties pre-Code Barbara Stanwyck vehicle, both fiery and lusty, in which she plays Kitty Lane, a young, poor, struggling waitress driven to a Reformatory […]