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Producer David Selznick’s rousing 1946 Technicolor Western is blatantly obvious, luridly colourful and terribly kitsch. Selznick was aiming to repeat his success with Gone with the Wind, but he constantly interfered with his six top […]
Director Arthur Penn’s sultry and steamy 1966 Texas small-town melodrama The Chase finds both the personal passions on screen and the clutch of finest Sixties movie stars interpreting those passions all over the place. Because […]
John Travolta stars as runaway Jack Cabe who is hired by a 1955 West Texas school for interned wayward delinquent boys as its rock-n-rolling new music teacher. Alas, despite a good cast, there is nothing that […]
Writer-director James Vanderbilt’s brilliant newsroom drama provides great acting opportunities and tells an important story about the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes show’s report on its investigation of President George W Bush’s military service. In America, the story […]
Geraldine Page is magnificent in director Peter Masterson’s 1985 guaranteed four-hankie weepie, based on the Fifties Horton Foote play produced on American TV and on Broadway (with Lillian Gish). Three cheers for the redoubtable Page who, […]
‘There are three things one can never be sure about – horses, the weather and women’ – The Falcon. Michael Arlen’s débonair detective The Falcon (Tom Conway) goes out West to investigate the roots of […]
Director Hal Ashby’s double Oscar-winning 1976 biopic of early life of Woody Guthrie provides a great star showcase for David Carradine who stars as the legendary vagabond folk singer. Carradine gives an impressive account of Woody Guthrie, […]