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Director John Cromwell’s tough and gritty 1951 gangster thriller The Racket boasts a great cast headed by stars Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan, Ray Collins and William Talman. It is all that is hoped […]
Co-writer/director Hal Kanter’s 1957 vehicle for Elvis Presley finds him starring as young hillbilly singer Deke Rivers, who’s changed his name from Jimmy Tompkins. He becomes a teenage sensation after he is hired to boost […]
Co-writer- director Oliver Stone’s 1991 homage to the iconic 1960-70s rock band The Doors also serves as a biopic of Jim Morrison, the group’s lead singer. It starts with a big asset in Val Kilmer, […]
Director John Huston’s vibrant, beautiful-looking, double Oscar-winning 1952 biopic focuses on the garish colours, wild times and wayward characters captured so vividly in Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s paintings and poster art of late 19th-century Montmartre in […]
The Ritz premiered on Broadway in 1975 with a cast including Jack Weston, Rita Moreno, Jerry Stiller and F Murray Abraham, all of whom reprise their roles in the 1976 film. Treat Williams is a […]
The Climax is an excellent, little-known vintage Universal Studios horror movie that finds Boris Karloff back in mad doctor mode as Dr Hohner, a demented physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, who becomes obsessed with a […]
For his first film as director in 1969, Richard Attenborough chooses an ambitious project – to make a movie version of producer-writer Joan Littlewood’s Sixties London Theatre Royal Stratford stage production. It won the […]