Cert PG | 84 mins | 1949
5 Star
Fun, Fights and Make-ups.
Robert Siodmak (The Killers, The Rough and the Smooth, Treasure of the Aztecs) was one of the masters of the Film-Noir genre (period 1944–54) along with the likes of Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, and Billy Wilder. He brings us a thick script and tight angles on the leading man and the femme fatale along with the…more
Cert U | 116 mins | 1948
5 Star
Post-WWII Berlin Shenanigans.
Masters of Cinema brings you #232 which is another five-star film from the capacious vaults of the writer/director the ‘illustrious’ Billy Wilder (Witness For The Prosecution, The Apartment, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Irma La Douce, Some Like It Hot, One, Two, Three). This time it is the Americans in the bombed out Berlin looking to rebuild…more
Cert U | 105 mins | 1950
5 Star
Ramrod, Wreckage, Ruin.
Rio Grande is the third installment of John Ford‘s “cavalry trilogy,” following two RKO Pictures releases: Fort Apache (1948) and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949). This time we are dealing with Apache raids. Fifteen years after the events at Shenandoah, it is the summer of 1879 and Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke and those under his command…more
Cert U, U, PG | 198 mins | 1924, 1925, 1926
5 Star
The Comic, The Man, The Legend!
Once again we have to thank The Keaton Project 2015 by Cineteca di Bologna and Cohen Film Collection to restore all Buster Keaton films between 1920 – 1928 and also Eureka The Masters of Cinema for putting together this amazing comedy classic package. These three films show off the unsurpassed physical skills of Keaton…more
Cert PG | 81 mins | 1946
4 Star
A Singer, A Drunk and an Accused Man.
Black Angel is Roy William Neill’s (Fifty Fathoms Deep, Murder Will Out, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, Sherlock Holmes Faces Death) swan song after a career spanning nearly thirty years and one hundred and ten directorial credits. Black Angel is a Film-Noir, with its sights definitely set on the dark recesses of…more
Cert PG | 106 mins | 1946
4 Star
War Time Arms Race
or
(Love in the Underground)
Filmed just after the war ended, Cloak and Dagger is a true tribute to the men and women who risked their lives in occupied Europe during WW II as part of the O.S.S. (Office of Strategic Services). From the legend that was Fritz Lang (The Woman in the Window, Der Mude Tod, Human…more
Cert PG | 92 mins | 1957
3 Star
Globe Trotting Drug Hunt.
Director John Gilling (The Pirates of Blood River, The Plague of the Zombies) takes the novel by A.J. Forrest and screenwritten by John Paxton (Murder, My Sweet). A great way to get shots of great places like Athens and Rome, as our Interpol agent chases a drug lord across Europe to America.
Charles Sturgis (Victor Mature, Samson…more
