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Director Edward H Griffith’s 1941 too-serious, overlong Paramount Pictures romantic drama Technicolor film Virginia stars Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray. Virginian charmer Stonewall Jackson Elliott (Fred MacMurray) tries to persuade New York career gal Charlotte […]
The rousing 1954 cult film noir thriller Crime Wave stars Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Ted de Corsia and Charles Bronson. Director André de Toth’s rousing 1954 cult film noir thriller Crime Wave stars Gene Nelson […]
In Stuart Heisler’s 1952 romantic and Hollywood drama The Star, Bette Davis boldly takes on a role written for her arch-rival Joan Crawford, who then turned it down, about Margaret ‘Maggie’ Elliot, a has-been star […]
Director Robert Altman’s 1973 neo-noir film of Raymond Chandler’s 1953 novel is expectedly updated to the Seventies but unexpectedly stars a laconic Elliott Gould as the hardboiled but chivalrous and honourable private eye Philip Marlowe, […]
Co-writer/ director John Huston’s compulsively watchable, realistically staged classic 1950 film noir heist movie The Asphalt Jungle is a trail-blazing thriller with the criminal scam it focuses on invigoratingly portrayed as an inside tale from […]
Three cheers for director Henry Hathaway’s vividly realized, brilliantly colourful 1954 sword-fighting historical adventure extravaganza. It stars a marvellous, on-form cast in Robert Wagner as a fresh-faced Viking Prince Valiant, James Mason as the villainous […]
The 1957 film Zero Hour! screenplay is used almost verbatim for its much more famous spoof Airplane!, including the hero being named Ted Striker. Dana Andrews stars in the 1957 drama film Zero Hour! as […]