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Writer-producer-director Casper Wrede’s 1970 Norwegian biographical drama One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stars Tom Courtenay, who is remarkable as Ivan Denisovich, the prisoner serving a harsh sentence of 10 years in a […]
Director Richard Fleischer’s 1972 The New Centurions stars George C Scott, Stacy Keach and Jane Alexander as well as an excellent support cast too. It was renamed Precinct 45: Los Angeles Police in the UK. […]
The 1950 film Devil’s Doorway is a downbeat and unpersuasive Western, but worth a look for Anthony Mann’s pacey direction, John Alton’s impressive black and white camerawork and the strong action finish. Paleface Robert Taylor […]
When World War Two is over, the crew of a gunboat buy their old boat and run smuggled goods across the English Channel into Britain, in director Basil Dearden’s 1955 Ealing Studios black and white […]
Director George Roy Hill’s engaging 1962 black and white comedy drama brings to the screen one of Tennessee Williams’s lesser-known plays, with a marriage under threat while the husband George Haverstick (Jim Hutton) tries to ‘readjust’ […]
Director Karel Reisz obscures his gripping Seventies story about heroin-smuggling among Vietnam veterans by putting his energies into conjuring up atmosphere and character, making this a depressing study of troubled characters in a downbeat drama […]
There is assured acting all round by a strong cast in director Vincente Minnelli’s powerful and impressive 1958 MGM movie of James Jones’s bestseller dissecting unfulfilled lives in a small Mid-West American town in the […]