When my husband received a parcel containing a collection of DVD box sets that had been on his wish list a long time, I was perhaps more curious than anxious […]
Second Chorus is a 1940 musical comedy starring Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith and Artie Shaw. Danny O’Neill (Astaire) and Hank Taylor (Meredith) are two rival trumpeters with college […]
Recently aired on Talking Pictures TV in the UK as part of their 100th birthday celebration of the life and works of legendary British actor John Gregson, I was both […]
Released in 1951, Operation Pacific is a World War Two submarine drama starring John Wayne, Patricia Neal and Ward Bond, directed by George Waggner. American submarine Thunderfish is tasked with […]
Eureka Entertainment has released a Blu-Ray edition of Billy Wilder’s 1963 romantic comedy Irma La Douce; starring Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon. Adapted from the 1956 musical for the French […]
Billy the Kid Returns is a 1938 American film starring Western hero Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane. Rogers plays a dual role here, as young, passionate Billy the […]
Angel and the Badman is a 1947 Western film starring John Wayne and Gail Russell. Like many of a certain era, it is formulaic both in the sense that it […]
Originally released in 1960, Sink The Bismarck is one of the finest British war films ever made. Starring Kenneth More and directed by Lewis Gilbert, Sink The Bismarck is being […]
Shown on British archive channel Talking Pictures TV recently, Cast a Dark Shadow is a 1955 film noir suspense film, directed by Lewis Gilbert. It stars a whole host of acting […]