Phone Call From a Stranger

They say captivating moments can often make a film. Judi Dench seemed to accomplish this when she won an Oscar as Best Actress in a Supporting Role in the 1999 Shakespeare in Love. That seems to be the theory behind Phone Call From a Stranger (1952...

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Poseidon Adventure, The

What could be more fun than spending New Year's Eve on a luxury cruise ship sailing from New York to Athens? That's what the passengers of the S.S. Poseidon thought until their ship was ravaged by a 90' tidal wave, capsized, and the pas...

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Power of the Press

Sam Fuller's story of Power of the Press (1943) is still as current in questioning the ethics of freedom of the press today as it was in 1943 when Fuller penned the story. The screenplay by Robert Hardy Andrews upholds Fuller's vision of cr...

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Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes, The

Sherlock Holmes saw something of a resurgence in the 1970s. All sorts of directors took their stabs at the character, including Bob Clark (Murder by Decree), Herbert Ross (The Seven-Per-Cent Solution), and even Gene Wilder (The Adventure of Sherloc...

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Public Enemy, The

Making The Public Enemy, a story adapted from the book Beer and Blood about gangsters and booze-running gangs during prohibition, was a brave step by Warner Bros in 1931 that drew some flack at the time. Warner head of production Darryl F. Zanick s...

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