In Permission To Kill, intelligence agent Alan Curtis (Dirk Bogarde) plots the downfall of Third World political leader Alexander Diakim (Bekim Fehmiu). The Monthly Film Bulletin...
George Cukor’s epic film was shot less than a decade after the British handover of India and reflected the West’s continuing ambiguity about the ending of...
John Lee Mahin made an excellent adaptation of the popular Kern and Hammerstein musical for MGM’s expert producer of musicals Arthur Freed and the resulting film,...
Steve Martin stars as gumshoe Rigby Reardon, down on his luck and ready to take on any job. When the beautiful Juliet Forrest (Rachel Ward) walks...
Hard-boiled murder mystery Kid Glove Killer was Van Heflin’s first role and the great director Fred Zinnemann’s first stint in the director’s chair. Heflin plays a...
In Mogambo Clark Gable, Grace Kelly, and Ava Gardner go on an African safari where they look glamorous enough to have just wandered by for cocktails....
The early sequences found the screenplay remaining fairly faithful to the original. When the showboat Cotton Blossom docks on the lower Mississippi, the company find themselves...
Claim to Fame: “We were always great in bed,” Ava Gardner smirked about her marriage to Frank Sinatra. “The trouble usually started on the way to...
George C. Scott spent four years in the Marines, but didn’t want to make a career out of it. Wanted to be a journalist, but had...
In his early films Burt Lancaster often played haunted, troubled characters – his career began in the brooding films of director Robert Siodmak. He then turned...
Long running US prime time soap Knots Landing was a spin off from Dallas with a character from that show Gary Ewing and his wife Valene...
Frank Sinatra. No other name so quickly conjures an image in our collective pop consciousness (well, maybe Elvis Presley, but Sinatra was the better actor). Whether...
He spent four years in the Marines, but didn’t want to make a career out of it. Wanted to be a journalist, but had no writing...