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The excellent 1948 film noir thriller Kiss the Blood Off My Hands stars Burt Lancaster as a fugitive who killed a man in a fight and hides away in a lonely nurse (Joan Fontaine)’s apartment. […]
Director Peter Duffell’s riveting 1980 Caught on a Train stars Peggy Ashcroft as Frau Messner, an imperious Austrian lady who terrifies young Briton Peter (Michael Kitchen) on an overnight train passing through Germany, in writer […]
The 1982 crime mystery thriller film Murder Is Easy stars Bill Bixby, Lesley-Anne Down, Olivia de Havilland and Helen Hayes in an atmospheric and good-looking adaptation of a complex 1939 Agatha Christie novel. Director Claude […]
Writer-director Bernard Blier’s 1991 French film Merci la Vie stars an impressive line-up in Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anouk Grinberg, Gérard Depardieu, Michael Blanc, Annie Girardot, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Carmet, Catherine Jacob and Thierry Frémont. But, despite […]
All aboard the London to Folkestone express for Michael Crichton’s 1979 Victorian crime caper, with Sean Connery as the cracksman William Pierce and Donald Sutherland as the safe-cracker Agar. ‘Steal from a moving train? Whoever […]
Director Andrei Konchalovsky’s 1985 Cannon Group adventure movie Runaway Train is a solid but over-blown mythical action thriller, with outsize performances by Jon Voight and Eric Roberts as escaping prisoners on an out-of-control train speeding […]
Writer-director Eric Rohmer’s 1992 A Winter’s Tale [A Tale of Winter] [Conte d’hiver] is his beguiling Tale of the Four Seasons about a pretty young hairdresser called Félicie (Charlotte Véry), who has a holiday romance […]