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Director Terence Young’s 1970 European co-production action crime thriller Cold Sweat stars the unlikely trio of Charles Bronson, James Mason and Liv Ullmann, plus Bronson’s wife and regular co-star Jill Ireland. Mason stars as Captain […]
Giving an attractive, compelling, credible performance, Huang Yao is a sympathetic young heroine as Peipei, who has spent much of the 16 years of her life travelling between Hong Kong where she studies and Shenzhen […]
Writer/ producer/ director Samuel Fuller’s 1957 movie is gung-ho war adventure stuff, but with considerable edge and intelligence, in which a French-led multinational group of adventurers attack a Communist ammo dump in Indo-China in 1954. […]
Vincent Price is highly effective as the ruler of an ancient underwater kingdom in director Jacques Tourneur’s innocuously entertaining 1965 fantasy adventure inspired by an Edgar Allan Poe poem. In a familiar Poe theme, Price’s […]
Writer-director John Gilling’s fun 1961 period adventure stars Peter Cushing as a Cornish squire who tries to keep the smugglers at bay. Gilling’s British sea saga about a gang of shipwreckers’ reign of terror in […]
Director Fritz Lang’s lively but cardboard-looking 1955 vintage costume adventure, based freely on J Meade Falkner’s classic story, is way off Lang’s usual territory. It is somewhat shakily made as what looks like a chore […]
Director Stephen Frears’s excellent 1971 British neo-noir retro-gangster yarn provides a heaven-sent acting opportunity for Albert Finney as Eddie Ginley, a music-hall comedian/ nightclub bingo caller who really wants to be Dashiell Hammett’s legendary fictional […]