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Director Don Sharp’s controversial 1975 British topical action thriller Hennessy stars Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, Richard Johnson, Trevor Howard, Eric Porter and Peter Egan. British soldiers kill Irish explosives man Niall Hennessy (Steiger)’s wife and […]
Director Alex Segal’s 1965 Hollywood biopic Harlow stars Carol Lynley and is a fast and fairly feisty biopic of the platinum blonde bombshell star Jean Harlow, filmed simultaneously with the much ritzier Carroll Baker-Angela Lansbury […]
Director Gordon Douglas’s 1965 Thirties Hollywood biopic Harlow stars Carroll Baker, who is lively if hollow as the platinum blonde bombshell star Jean Harlow, in the Paramount Pictures studio’s plush though not nearly sensational enough […]
David Niven’s debonair charm is just right for E W Hornung’s celebrated England Test cricketer and amateur cracksman A J Raffles, in the tasty and likeable 1939 crime mystery movie Raffles. David Niven’s debonair charm […]
‘His wife just left him for another man. And so did his boyfriend.’ Alan Bates gives a dazzling performance in director Harold Pinter’s brilliant 1973 drama film Butley, based on Simon Gray’s masterwork play. ‘His […]
American actor Robert Downey Jr was a controversial choice in the UK as the British silent comic actor and movie star who astoundingly was once the most famous man in the world, both as an […]
Director Stuart Rosenberg’s liberal-minded 1980 real-life thriller vehicle for Robert Redford is a well-meaning, sincerely done but sombre, unexciting and vaguely depressing prison movie. It is good but it is not Cool Hand Luke. Redford battles […]