The phrase ‘sleeper hit’ was never better applied than to Mike (Get Carter) Hodges’ film, whose initial distribution wasn’t just below the radar but positively subterranean....
In this tongue-in-cheek pop art meets the Avenger’s-esque espionage flick glamorous Modesty Blaise is called in by HM Government to protect a consignment of diamonds destined...
Man’s Castle is a pre-Code, Depression-era story with surprisingly adult themes from master of melodrama Borzage. Spencer Tracy, like millions of Americans, is down on his...
Although his Oscar antics may have sealed his image as a lovable joker, ebullient in his success and clambering over people and seats to collect his...
The Power and the Glory is something of a cinema breakthrough, this film was hailed at the time for its unconventional structure (dubbed ‘narratage’ and often...
This parable of organised violence gained unwanted relevance after September 11 but it still retains the power to shock and instruct. Set in Japan in the...
Spencer Tracy’s first screen appearance (and Humphrey Bogart’s second) in a prison comedy by John Ford. Ex-con Tracy gets himself and former cell-mate Hymer thrown back...
Michael Mann’s epic film is set in the America of 1757, where the French and the English are fighting for power, aided by the Huron and...
World famous hunter Harry Black (Stewart Granger) sets out to kill a ferocious Bengal tiger terrorizing a poor Indian villiage in this action adventure. Harry’s efforts...
People claiming to have known Doris Day before she became a virgin won’t recognise her in this harmonious, highly entertaining sequel to 1951’s On Moonlight Bay....