"...he had been a shade too set on making a fine figure. It was part and parcel of that immense, secret vanity of his, the vanity whi...

  Conrad Nield finds himself in a spot of bother; having given a lift to a hitchhiking girl, he leaves her stranded on a country road. When ...

The assassination is real enough, and nicely underplayed; but what follows is a grab-bag of small arms. Public disquiet leads a weak Pri...

In Newman's 1930 history's fault line is that of France and Germany; all wars are Franco-German, even if they turn global, and...

Four astronauts returning from a mission to Mars are diverted from their landing at Cape Kennedy to the coast of England. Here they fi...

1973's Massacre in Rome is a surprisingly artful Euro co-production concerning the Ardeatine Caves massacre in 1944. The film calls...

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