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Director Raoul Walsh’s 1953 romantic historical action adventure drama Sea Devils stars Rock Hudson as Gilliatt, the swashbuckling fisherman cum smuggler who falls for beautiful English spy Drucette (Yvonne De Carlo) and sets her on […]
Co-writer/director Robert Hossein’s 1982 drama stars Michel Bouquet, who gives a subtle, controlled and smoulderingly quiet performance as the sneering, obsessively over-law-abiding cop Inspector Javert, in a meticulous, pleasingly enjoyable French screen version of the […]
Gino Cervi is very solid as the hounded hero Jean Valjean in director Riccardo Freda’s lesser, but still well made and enjoyable 1948 Italian reworking of the Victor Hugo tale of social injustice and despair. […]
Jean-Paul Belmondo gives the performance of a lifetime as the hounded hero Jean Valjean in a hugely moving, beautifully crafted and enjoyable 1995 French reworking of the Victor Hugo tale of social injustice and despair. […]
Charles Laughton gives an outstanding, surprisingly controlled performance as the sneering, over-law-abiding cop Inspector Javert in director Richard Boleslawski’s fine, meticulously compressed 1935 screen version of the Victor Hugo tale. Fredric March is also admirable […]
Robert Newton gives an entertaining, lip-smacking performance as the sneering, over-law-abiding cop Inspector Javert in this well-acted, thoroughly enjoyable if not especially distinguished screen version of the Victor Hugo tale. Michael Rennie perhaps is less […]
‘THE DEVIL’S BROOD! All the Screen’s Titans of Terror – Together in the Greatest of All SCREEN SENSATIONS!’ Monstrously hard to keep up with that, but director Erle C Kenton does his level best when […]