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Writer-director James Clavell’s ambitious 1971 adventure movie The Last Valley finds that Michael Caine is somewhat overstretched as The Captain, a ruthless Protestant mercenary leader who brings his band of soldiers to a sleepy 1640s German […]
The fourth movie in Peter Lorre’s enjoyable Mr Moto casebook. Director Norman Foster’s 1938 crime thriller Mr Moto Takes a Chance is the fourth in the enjoyable casebook series of eight films starring Peter Lorre as […]
Love blossoms between backward and troublesome teenage country girl Brydie White (played by Hayley Mills) and gypsy lad Roibin (Ian McShane), in the 1966 British romantic drama Sky West and Crooked [Gypsy Girl], a pretty […]
There is superb acting in Zhang Yimou’s heart-rending, exquisitely realised 1999 Chinese film The Road Home, a tale of pure and simple love that does not put a foot wrong and will have hardly a […]
Director Mario Bava’s creepy, atmospheric and outstanding 1966 Italian Gothic horror film Operazione Paura [Kill, Baby… Kill!] stars Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Erika Blanc and Fabienne Dali. Based on a story co-written by Bava, Romano Migliorini, and Roberto […]
The majestic 1959 The World of Apu (Apur Sansar) is the last part of Indian writer-producer-director Satyajit Ray’s great Apu trilogy and is its crowning glory. Apu (Soumitra Chatterjee) grows to love his arranged-marriage wife […]
Pather Panchali (1955) is Indian writer-producer-director Satyajit Ray’s first film and the start of his stunning Apu trilogy charts the growth of Apu Ray (Subir Banerjee), a small boy born in a poor Bengali village, […]