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Claude Chabrol’s suspenseful 1969 French psychological thriller film Que la Bête Meure [The Beast Must Die] is based on the 1938 detective novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, writing as Nicholas Blake. Writer-director Claude Chabrol’s suspenseful and […]
‘Most honorable screen smash!’ ‘That joyful hit of the stage is the big, bright delight of the screen.’ ‘It’s even funnier than the play!’ ‘The heart-warmingest picture under the rising sun! The happiest pairing of […]
Director John S Robertson’s sentimental 1933 RKO Radio Pictures black and white drama One Man’s Journey stars Lionel Barrymore as Eli Watt, a canny, but selfless old doctor who returns to his sleepy hometown from […]
Director Garson Kanin’s 1938 RKO Radio Pictures black and white drama A Man to Remember stars Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis and Lee Bowman. It is the flashback-told biography of a selfless town doctor, Doctor John […]
Director Franklin J Schaffner’s minor 1967 British spy thriller The Double Man stars Yul Brynner in two roles (high-ranking CIA widower Dan Slater and his lookalike enemy agent, Kalmar). A large part of the action […]
Yasujirô Ozu’s elegant and elegiac final film An Autumn Afternoon (1962) serves as a fine epitaph for one of the world’s great directors. In the autumn of his life, Yasujirô Ozu directed the elegant and […]
The 1948 Western film Rachel and the Stranger stars Robert Mitchum as Indian scout Jim, who visits a backwoods cabin in the 1820s and falls for purchased bride Rachel (Loretta Young), whose jealous husband Big […]