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Alan Ladd stars in ‘an adventure which cowards quit early and weaklings never finish at all!’ Director John Farrow’s 1948 black and white Paramount Pictures drama Beyond Glory stars Alan Ladd as Captain Rockwell ‘Rocky’ Gilman, […]
‘A gay, bubbly magnum of fun.’ Writer-producer-director Norman Krasna’s 1956 pleasant if past its sell-by date comedy The Ambassador’s Daughter stars Olivia de Havilland and John Forsythe, who give it their best shot, but that […]
Director James B Clark’s odd, interesting, often quite compelling 1960 revenge Western film One Foot in Hell stars a well-cast Alan Ladd as the bitter Mitch Barrett taking it out on the Arizona small town […]
Director Vittorio De Sica’s 1970 drama Sunflower [I Girasoli] is a soppy wartime romantic melodrama, in which a particularly gorgeous-looking Sophia Loren plays Giovanna, who spends most of her time searching for her husband Antonio […]
Director Douglas Sirk’s 1952 No Room for the Groom is a frothy light comedy centring on GI Alvah Morrell (Tony Curtis) eloping to marry Lee Kingshead (Piper Laurie) in Las Vegas before she has had […]
Director Arnold Laven’s 1965 film The Glory Guys is a sturdy Sam Peckinpah-scripted glossy Western about an ill-prepared US cavalry attack on the Sioux. Tom Tryon stars as Captain Demas Harrod, the soldier unwilling to send […]
Leslie Thomas scripts from his own novel, but is the now iconic Seventies cast that is the making of the 1977 British army sex comedy Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers. Director Norman Cohen’s 1977 British army […]