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Director Robert Wise’s 1946 mystery thriller is an excellent, short (64 minutes) little B-movie crime programmer from the RKO Radio Pictures studio. Tom Conway stars as lawyer Stephen Barnes who accidentally shoots dead a bent […]
Martin Scorsese’s stylish 1977 American musical drama film New York, New York is a musical tribute to his home town of New York City and old Hollywood movies, and stars tremendous Liza Minnelli and Robert […]
The 1952 film noir psychological mystery thriller stars Richard Widmark and Marilyn Monroe, who gives a remarkably convincing performance in a very difficult and peculiar role as a New York City hotel’s shy-seeming unhinged babysitter. […]
Director Michael Apted’s sterling 1980 biopic Coal Miner’s Daughter stars Sissy Spacek, who won the 1981 Best Actress Oscar and the Golden Globe for her role as backwoods girl Loretta Lynn, who becomes a legendary […]
‘It’s joy set to music. A story that sings out to your heart.’ Well, maybe, but more probably maybe not. Danny Thomas steps into Al Jolson’s singing shoes for Michael Curtiz’s slushy 1952 second film […]
The Jazz Singer’s sentimental story exploring the clash of the lure of showbiz versus the pull of family duty is impossibly dated. But director Richard Fleischer’s 1980 third film version of Sampson Raphaelson’s antique play […]
The 1935 MGM musical melodrama film stars Jean Harlow as a theatre star whose career is endangered by the scandal of her husband’s suicide. Uncomfortably, the tale is plucked by producer David O Selznick from […]