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The 1940 Stranger on the Third Floor is a classic film noir thriller where menace lurks in every shadow and stairway. Peter Lorre stars as the sinister Stranger, whom a reporter (John McGuire) suspects has […]
Director Arthur Pierson’s modest 1947 youth-oriented B-movie crime drama Dangerous Years stars Billy Halop, Scotty Beckett, Richard Gaines and Ann E Todd, but, though far from negligible, it is really only remembered because Marilyn Monroe makes her first on screen […]
Director Sidney J Furie’s inventive direction and some then fresh faces (Dudley Sutton, Jess Conrad, Ronald Lacey, Tony Garnett) are the main pleasures of the interesting youth-oriented 1962 British courtroom drama The Boys, which was […]
Director Irving Pichel’s excellent 1947 film noir thriller They Won’t Believe Me stars Robert Young, who is well cast way outside his usual friendly, sympathetic mould in a chilling role as Larry Ballentine, a spineless […]
‘I would rather die than be forced into a Nazi Officer’s Club!’ Director André De Toth’s 1944 wartime film None Shall Escape was the first to depict the horrors of the Holocaust and harsh realities […]
I’m not one to judge, but the admirable and involving The Children Act (2017) has a lot going for it, not least Emma Thompson. The admirable and involving The Children Act (2017) has a lot going for […]
Director Paul Sloane’s 1933 drama The Woman Accused is a Thirties high-concept movie: a version of a Liberty Magazine’s idea to get 10 renowned authors to write a chapter of a serial without consulting each […]