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Director Maurice Elvey’s excellent little 1935 British suspense thriller stars Claude Rains as the apparently phoney psychic and mind reader Maximus who finds that he is really able to predict a train crash. The fake music-hall […]
British director Jonathan Lynn’s American 1992 situation comedy has its moments, though it is often boring and unsubtle, as it is written (by Dale Launer) and directed with clumsy hands. However, the hard-working actors deliver […]
Director Michael Cimino’s 1990 remake of William Wyler’s fondly remembered 1955 Humphrey Bogart thriller The Desperate Hours about a gang of convicts who terrorise a family household is disappointingly tepid and routine. This time Mickey Rourke […]
Director Fritz Lang’s 1956 RKO film noir thriller stars Dana Andrews and Joan Fontaine in a story about a writer’s plan to expose a corrupt district attorney and campaign for an end to capital punishment […]
Director Mark Robson’s posh 1957 epic soap opera film Peyton Place stars Oscar nominated Lana Turner as Constance MacKenzie, a shopkeeper with a past, who takes a chance on love with new young high school […]
The 1979 Western film Tom Horn is notable as Steve McQueen’s penultimate movie and his final Western. It tells the tale of the last days of real-life Wyoming cavalry scout and bounty hunter Tom Horn, […]
This familiar-feeling big top melodrama, with its old tale of circus family conflicts, is a sneaky reworking of themes from the big-city drama House of Strangers (1949) and the Western Broken Lance (1954) without actually […]