A watchable remake of the much-love Hitchcock classic. Miss Froy (Angela Lansbury in high camp mode) goes missing on a train leaving hapless Elliott Gould and Cybill Shepherd flitting from one compartment to the next, where thet are ruthlessly...
Phyllis Calvert stars as a woman who outwardly appears demure and self effacing, but who lives a wild secret life as a gypsy. cast Phyllis Calvert as Maddalena Stewart Granger as Nino Patricia Roc as Angela Peter Glenville as Sandro John Stuart as...
British B movie starring Ralph Bates as a teacher in an adulterous affair with headmaster’s wife Joan Collins. Together they plan to drive Bates’s wife, Judy Geeson, mad enough to kill Collins’ husband Peter Cushing. cast Joan...
George Sanders slips into Simon Templar guise for a second time, to track down a gang of counterfeiters who have swindled a European count out of a million-pound stack of cash. The plot thickens when he uncovers a foreign-currency laundering scheme...
Atmospheric period melodrama starring Jean Simmons as a 17-year-old who goes to live with her uncle (Derrick de Marney) and finds she is marked for murder. cast Jean Simmons as Caroline Ruthyn Katina Paxinou as Madame de la Rougierre Derrick De...
The third compendium horror film from Hammer rivals Amicus offers a script by Robert ‘Psycho’ Bloch and an impressive cast of genre stalwarts and jobbing thesps with rather impressive results. The interlinking premise this time around is...
If Hitchcock had been a B-movie director, the result might have looked something like this. The plot is certainly worthy of the master, but for all its twist-laden excitement, it lacks the spark of classic thriller material. Richard Todd stars as...
It’s heresy to suggest that a Michael Winner remake of a film starring Bogart and Bacall could be at least as good as the original but this is such a movie. Robert Mitchum is Raymond Chandler’s private eye Marlowe investigating the...
Thriller starring John Mills as a Harley Street doctor who is framed for the murder of a film star. Written by TV thriller king Francis Durbridge and indeed based on one of his early BBC serials, The Brass Candlestick. cast John Mills as Dr. Howard...
Brilliant detective Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) investigates the murder of a woman (Piper Laurie) who had blackmailed her lawyer into helping her retain control of her late husband’s estate. Poirot must sort through a tangled web of...