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Tag: Historical Film

The Imitation Game (2014) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Here there be spoilers:In the early ‘50s, Detective Robert Nock (Rory Kinnear) is called to the house of eccentric...

Knives of the Avenger (I Coltelli del Vendicatore, 1966) Movie Review &Film summary, Cast

Knives of the Avenger begs a mythical origin story involving Mario Bava, a drinking game with Sergio Leone and/or...

Maid of Salem (1937) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

The Salem witch trials have permeated the historical consciousness in America and beyond for many reasons, loaded with symbolic...

’71 (2014) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

.Pvt Gary Hook (Jack O’Connell) is first glimpsed amidst a squad of young soldiers, being put through their paces...

The Two Faces of January (2014) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Hossein Amini has had a variable but mostly strong career as an accomplished, professional film writer, penning excellent scripts...

Mandingo (1975) Movie Review, Cast & Crew, Film Summary

Mandingo movie review & film summary (1975) Regarded upon its release as a ne plus ultra of sleazy trash, but...

Quebec (1951) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Yes folks, Canadian history hits the big screen in all its glory. What a rip-roaring project this one must have...

Men Go To Battle (2015) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Francis (David Maloney) and Henry Mellon (Tim Morton) are brothers who own a farm in rural Kentucky, during the...

Khartoum (1966) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

An army of religious zealots on the march, led by a charismatic would-be holy warrior convinced he’s the right...

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Critically dismissed and a scant commercial success at the time of its release, Tora! Tora! Tora! marked 20th Century...

Dances With Wolves (1990) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Widely acclaimed at the time as both a revival of the grand movie epic and a revivification of the...

Quentin Durward (1955) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

aka The Adventures of Quentin DurwardAs the 1950s saw TV encroaching ever more deeply on cinema’s turf, Hollywood studios...