La Main du diable (The Devil’s Hand) (aka Carnival of Sinners): Maurice Tourneur Horror Noir, Starring Pierre Fresnay
Maurice Tourneur directed La Main du diable (“The Devil’s Hand”), a French horror film, starring Pierre Fresnay as struggling artist who acquires a supernatural talisman. Guests at isolated hotel, cut off by avalanche, are surprised when Roland Brissot, a man missing his left hand, shows up with only small casket. When he asks the innkeeper […]
P.J. (aka New Face in Hell): Guillermin’s Detective Thriller, Starring George Peppard (Homophobia, Gay-Bashing)
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Three Sailors and a Girl (1954): Del Ruth’s B-Musical, Starring Jane Powell and Gordon MacRae
From Our Archives Roy Del Ruth directed Three Sailors and a Girl, a Technicolor musical made by Warner. It was directed by and written by Devery Freeman and Roland Kibbee, based on the George S. Kaufman play “The Butter and Egg Man.” Ray Heindorf was the musical director, with orchestrations by Gus Levene, and vocal […]
Licence to Kill (1989): Bond No. 16, Starring Timothy Dalton
Licence to Kill is the sixteenth in the James Bond series, and the second (and last) to star British actor Timothy Dalton.
On the Job: The Missing 8: Sprawling, Gripping Thriller About Filipino Corruption
Erik Matti’s three-and-a-half-hour thriller, On the Job: The Missing 8, is the prolific Filipino director’s Venice-competing sequel to the 2013 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title On the Job.
Pedestrian, The (1973): Maximillian Schell’s Oscar Nominated Tale of Elderly War Criminal
Oscar winning actor Maximillian (Judgment at Nuremberg) Schell directed The Pedestrian, about the trial of an elderly war criminal.
Invitation, The (L’Invitation) (1973): Claude Goretta’s Oscar-Nominated Film
The Invitation was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. But the winner was Truffaut’s comedy, Day for Night.
Romance of Rosy Ridge, The (1947): Rural Melodrama Starring Van Johnson and Janet Leigh in her Screen Debut
Janet Leigh made her screen debut in The Romance of Rosy Ridge, a mediocre drama about a rural community bitterly divided during the aftermath of the American Civil War.
Paw (aka Boy of Two Worlds) (1959): Denmark’s Oscar Nominee (Boy, Family)
A boy from the Caribbean, affected by the deaths of his parents and maiden aunt, escapes to the Danish forest.
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World Is Not Enough, The (1999): Bond No. 19, Michael Apted Directs Pierce Brosnan
The World Is Not Enough is the 19th film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Pierce Brosnan as MI6 agent James Bond.