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Director Robert Aldrich’s 1954 American film noir thriller World for Ransom stars Dan Duryea, Gene Lockhart, Patric Knowles, Reginald Denny, Nigel Bruce, Marian Carr, Douglass Dumbrille and Keye Luke. World for Ransom is a big-screen cousin […]
Rogue Trader (1999) stars Ewan McGregor, who finds an excellent role and excels as ambitious real-life investment broker Nick Leeson, who breaks trading rules, covers up losses and eventually bankrupts the famous old British bank, […]
The 1964 film The Pirates of Malaysia stars Steve Reeves, who fights back as Malaysian rebel Sandokan with a group of renegade pirates of Malaya, in this moderate but very tolerable sequel to his 1963 […]
Hywel Bennett stars in The Virgin Soldiers (1969) as Private Brigg sent to Singapore where he falls for army daughter Phillipa Raskin (Lynn Redgrave). Leslie Thomas’s 1966 comic novel, based on his British Army experiences as […]
Director Jon M Chu’s ghastly romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians was an unexpected runaway hit in America, its success based on the source global bestseller by Kevin Kwan. It is Mills and Boon’s finest. I’m guessing […]
Director Michael Blakemore’s 1982 British comedy Privates on Parade is a faithful film of a very camp, old-fashioned Seventies stage hit by clever writer Peter Nichols, drawing on his own 1947 Malayan emergency experiences with […]
Director John Brahm’s 1947 action, adventure, crime romantic thriller Singapore stars Ava Gardner as gorgeous old flame Linda, now married to stuffy rich planter Michael Van Layden (Roland Culver), who comes back into the life of carefree pearl […]