BRITISH INTELLIGENCE (1939) – REVIEW

6/10 Aka "Enemy Agent" here in the UK, this Warner Bros. spy thriller was surprisingly good. Boris Karloff stars as Valdor, a German Agent operating in London during in 1917, or is he...? He is the handler of a fellow Agent, Frances (Margaret Lindsey), who is sent to live with a member of Britsh Intelligence,…

THE BIG TRAIL (FOX GRANDEUR) (1930) – REVIEW

1930 DIRECTORS: Raoul Walsh &  Louis R. Loeffler "The Indians are my friends..." Breck Coleman - John Wayne Not exactly a statement that would exemplify the Career of a man rightly or wrongly associated as being the Cowboy of the Cowboy and Indian movies. But there is no doubt that John Wayne was certainly one…

3-D RARITIES (Flicker Alley & 3-D Film Archive) (1922 – 1962) – REVIEW

This is the first real example of what 3D was to me as I grew up. Short and to the pointy!

GONE WITH THE WIND; RACIST… REALLY…?

Well, it is a pretty hard case to sell that this American classic from 1939 is anything but. Is it as bad as Birth Of A Nation, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year? I very much doubt it but it is guilty of the casual, patronising racism common place in pre-war America, with…

A CENTURY OF 3-D

1915: The first known exhibition of a 3-D film was on June 10th of that year, 100 years ago today. Yes, that's right, the "new" 3-D fad in just that, "new" as in the latest of many attempts to lift images off the screen and thrill audiences with what over 90 years later, Christopher Nolan…