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Director Jack Lee’s ambitious and compelling 1953 black and white British crime drama Turn the Key Softly stars Yvonne Mitchell, Joan Collins and Kathleen Harrison as three women in trouble getting used to their lives […]
‘What happens to girls without men?’ The campy 1956 psychotronic film Girls in Prison stars Richard Denning, Joan Taylor and Adele Jergens. In 1956, even a film called Girls in Prison had a male star. […]
Director Phil Karlson’s 1955 crime thriller Tight Spot stars Ginger Rogers, Edward G Robinson and Brian Keith, and is a vintage film noir treat. It is based on Leonard Kantor’s play Dead Pigeon, which only […]
Co-writer/ director Frank Launder’s solid 1944 British wartime comedy drama from Gainsborough Pictures offers plenty of suspense, wartime atmosphere and detail, and some cheerful humour thrown in as well. It stars the formidable line-up of Phyllis […]
Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L Jackson are a great double act in The Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017) as the world’s top bodyguard and his new hit man client, whom he must get to the International Court […]
‘Confessions of an Ex-Convict Who Strips Bare the Raw Facts!’ Co-writer/ director J Lee Thompson’s 1953 British prison drama stars a formidable sextet in Glynis Johns, John Gregson, Diana Dors, Jane Hylton, Rachel Roberts and Sidney […]
Writer-director Jonathan Demme makes his impressive and inventive film début in 1974 with this women-in-prison exploitation movie, made for producer Roger Corman. A sensationalist tale of rape, riot and revenge, it is the start of a […]