French novelist Alexandre Dumas’ novels have frequently been the inspiration for movies (from The Man in the Iron Mask to The Three Musketeers), but arguably none...
Two years after making The Dam Busters together, director Michael Anderson and actor Richard Todd teamed up once more for another real-life tale of British heroism....
Five people are killed in a freak accident when a lofty rope bridge collapses. The film details a priest’s journey to discover if there was a...
Gripping Second World War drama They Who Dare (based on a true event) is elevated from the stock-in-trade, stiff-upper-lip heroism by immaculate characterisations from Dirk Bogarde...
In Tortilla Flat Spencer Tracy and John Garfield play two friends just trying to get by in Steinbeck’s world of Monterey, California’s canneries and fishermen. Tracy...
In Topkapi a team of daring (and quite amusing) thieves contrive a diabolically clever plot to steal a priceless dagger decorated with four dazzling emeralds from...
Born in Baku, Russia in 1899 and educated at Moscow University and the Moscow Art Theatre School of Acting, Akim Tamiroff went on tour with the...