Filmography Highlights
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Pay It Forward
2000- Rated:
- 12
Overly-schmaltzy update of the tale of the Good Samaritan, introducing the terrifying concept of the chain good deed. Features Oscar winning stars, but fails to make the grade
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Duets
2000- Rated:
- 15
Charmingly entertaining – and unique – variation on the road movie, about karaoke hustlers. Director Bruce Paltrow is the father of Gwyneth, who stars alongside Mario Bello and Huey Lewis
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Big Bad Mama II
1987- Rated:
- 18
Corman produced the derivative Big Bad Mama five years after he directed the awesome Bloody Mama. Never one to let a good idea go to waste he produced this follow-up re-run 13 years later. Dickinson
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Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
1980- Rated:
- TBC
Lacklustre, camped-up revival of a Depression era favourite, with all the period trimmings and a bizarre piece of miscasting at the top of the bill. Ustinov, with his dodgy oriental eye make-up and s
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Big Bad Mama
1974- Rated:
- X
Depression-era tale à la Bonnie and Clyde from the Corman production house that follows up his earlier Bloody Mama. Dickinson is cast as a desirable widow who turns to crime to make ends meet. W
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Outside Man, The
1973- Rated:
- TBC
One of those films where an assassin is sent to a strange land to perform a hit, unaware that there is already a contract out on his own life. Here, the stranger is Trintignant, who has been sent to
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Pretty Maids All in a Row
1971- Rated:
- TBC
Director Vadim obviously left whatever Gallic wit he possessed back home in France when he went to America to shoot this would-be erotic black comedy about a philandering university psychologist (an
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Young Billy Young
1969- Rated:
- TBC
Kennedy's blend of humour and conventional western narratives echoed through numerous films as writer and/or director. Here, he took both roles., The story follows a drifter (Mitchum) searching for h
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Point Blank
1967- Rated:
- X
A violent crime classic. In British director John Boorman's US debut, Lee Marvin plays an unstoppable hood out for vengeance
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Chase, The
1966- Rated:
- X
How Marlon Brando loved to suffer: humiliated and battered in On the Waterfront, whipped in One Eyed Jacks and beaten to a pulp in this intense melodrama which is freely adapted and cooked at high he
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Cast a Giant Shadow
1966- Rated:
- TBC
A long and serious film by writer-director Shavelson, well known for comedies and musicals. This film purports to recount the life and career of Col David 'Mickey' Marcus (Douglas), an American Jew a
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Art of Love, The
1965- Rated:
- TBC
Jewison's muddled comedy stars Van Dyke as a struggling artist living in Paris with similarly luckless author Garner. Van Dyke doesn't have the stomach for the fight and he returns to America. But Ga
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Killers, The
1964- Rated:
- TBC
Ernest Hemingway's classic short story is updated and shot in garish colour, with considerably more violence. The murder victim, Johnny (Cassavetes), awaits his fate at a school for the blind where h
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Captain Newman Md
1963- Rated:
- TBC
An uneasy comedy drama, with Peck as the doctor running the psychiatric ward of a veterans hospital during the Second World War, Dickinson as the nurse who has to overcome her horror of some of the o
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Ocean's Eleven
1960- Rated:
- PG
The Rat Pack plus sundry associates assemble for this Las Vegas yarn about 11 ex-army buddies planning a considerable heist
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Rio Bravo
1959- Rated:
- U
"John Wayne, the big guy with the battered hat... and Dean Martin, the ragged woman-wrecked cast-off called Dude... and Ricky Nelson, the rockin' babyfaced gunfisted kid... And time was running out through bullet holes at Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo". Great tagline, great film
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China Gate
1957- Rated:
- TBC
It is the French phase of the Vietnam War, and a group of mercenaries are recruited to blow up an arms depot. Lucky Legs (Dickinson), a local smuggler, agrees to use her connections with a guerilla l
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