Forty Guns
Forty Guns (1957) opens with a stagecoach making its away down through the cinemascope frame. The coach, carrying a trio of Federally employed gunmen, ambles slowly across the vastness of… Read more »
Forty Guns (1957) opens with a stagecoach making its away down through the cinemascope frame. The coach, carrying a trio of Federally employed gunmen, ambles slowly across the vastness of… Read more »
The Balloon (1956) was made at the height of Yuzo Kawashima’s powers and during his most prolific period while working at Nikkatsu studio. The Balloon has all the hallmarks of… Read more »
The boutique home video label Deaf Crocodile Films has done justice to Aleksandr Ptushko’s oft maligned masterpiece Ilya Muromets (1956). This Russian folklore epic was butchered for an American release… Read more »
Universal Studios regular Harry Keller directed the Hedy Lamarr lead melodrama The Female Animal (1958). This campy riff on Sunset Boulevard (1950) sees the legendary Lamarr as Vanessa Windsor, an… Read more »
In the year 1959 two of the greatest low budget westerns ever made were released. These are films of great narrative economy, visual minimalism, and aesthetic precision that looked to… Read more »
Jacqueline Audry’s film Olivia (1949), based on the novel by Dorothy Bussy, is almost entirely anomalous in the history of French cinema. Not only is Olivia a film directed by… Read more »
Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s film adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ one-act play is as famous today for its sensationalism as it is for the on-set clashes between the stars and the director…. Read more »
Ivanhoe (1952) was MGM’s big blockbuster and Oscar contender of 1952. Richard Thorpe directs this rousing adaptation of Sir Walter Scott’s novel starring Robert Taylor as Ivanhoe, Elizabeth Taylor as… Read more »
Nobody likes Howard Hughes’ Jet Pilot (1957). One of the stars of Jet Pilot, John Wayne, has described the film as “too stupid for words”. Hughes poured a fortune into… Read more »
Jack and the Beanstalk (1952) was Bud Abbott and Lou Costello’s passion project. The comedy duo produced this family classic themselves with original songs by Lester Lee and Bob Russell…. Read more »