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The attractively lurid 1928 American drama The Docks of New York is probably Josef von Sternberg’s finest silent film, mainly because of his obvious joy in deploying his complete technical mastery of the medium. The […]
Writer-director David S Ward’s 1982 drama Cannery Row stars Nick Nolte and Debra Winger as baseball player turned marine biologist Doc and feisty floozy Suzy DeSoto. The movie is set in the 1940s, in Cannery […]
‘Men Against The Sea! Stark Drama No Fiction Can Equal!’ Producer-director Henry Hathaway’s 1937 Souls at Sea is a popular Gary Cooper high seas action adventure about the American navy battling slave traders in the […]
‘Gold. Out of California in 1849 came the cry that lured the adventurous from the four corners of the Earth. Over the Rockies in covered wagons they came, and around the Horn in square-rigged ships.’ […]
In the sequel to Mr Wong in Chinatown (1939), The Fatal Hour is the well-plotted and intriguing fourth of the six-film Mr Wong crime thriller series. Boris Karloff again stars as Chinese sleuth James Lee Wong, […]
Director Andrjez Bartkowiak’s 2000 action thriller focuses on the Romeo and Juliet plot as two rival Asian and African American families on the US West Coast are locked in a fierce turf battle vying for […]
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