While Corman may veer dangerously close to pretention, his crisp staging and confident visual style keep the film from collapsing under its own weight.

The picture is filled with one sight gag after another, many familiar to anyone old enough to remember the glory days of silent comedy.

Set in 1879 in Natal, this magnificently staged, brilliantly acted film tells the story of the heroic defense by overwhelmingly outnumbered British troops of the tiny outpost Rorke's Drift.

This is one of Lewis' lesser efforts, with his appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show drawing the only real laughs.

A disappointing attempt at comedy, considering the names of the creators and the adroitness of the stars.

Written with enough self-consciously campy humor to defuse the paranoid ideologies running rampant here, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE is also acted with tongues held firmly in cheek.

The original seemed to convey more tension and suspense. In the film everything is painfully predictable.

Presley's one really good musical, mainly because it features a female costar, Ann-Margret, who can match the coiffed one in the charisma stakes.

No great director confined both his subject matter and technique like Yasujiro Ozu, and this, his final film, sums up so much of what makes that tunnel vision so eloquent.

The only one of the Hammer Frankenstein films not directed by Terence Fisher, this is, consequently, one of the weakest entries in the series.

Three solid and scary tales of terror from the undisputed master of Italian horror, Mario Bava.

The Naked Kiss is Fuller's most developed and unrelentingly bleak view of the dark underbelly of American society.

Davis has a chance to let it all hang out in the two roles and she does.

Seven Days in May smacks of realism, from its skillfully realized sets to its wholly believable supporting performances by O'Brien, Balsam, and John Houseman. Sure to keep you on the edge of your seat.

It's a lightweight piece with not much of a plot but plenty of amusing lines in the middle of familiar situations.

The film is a model of barely controlled hysteria in which the absurdity of hypermasculine Cold War posturing becomes devastatingly funny--and at the same time nightmarishly frightening in its accuracy.

It seems the children's grim purpose on earth is to be destroyed in a violent manner, enabling fearful, warlike, and ignorant modern man to learn a valuable lesson about himself.

The high point of the picture is the antics of Merlin; at one point he's hilariously funny in his absentmindedness, and the next he shows his cunning.

A nicely told, occasionally highly emotional story, but the main purpose of the film seems to be to give writer-director Elia Kazan an excuse to pat himself on the back.

Charade is a finely crafted thriller that has a lot to offer beyond its clever plot. The radiant Hepburn's romance with the suave Grant is delightfully handled; the Oscar-nominated theme song by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer is superb; the location photography is exquisite and the rooftop fight scene between Grant and Kennedy is truly harrowing.

In HIGH AND LOW Kurosawa succeeds in developing a highly visual structural style within the wide-screen format.

Featuring some astonishing acting from the highly trained animal stars and some beautiful shots of the Canadian high country, this simply told, episodic tale is great for kids and not too bad for big people either.

Loud and brassy, Wayne does a good job in his broad comedy role, although it is doubtful that the picture could have gotten away with the spanking scene if it were made today.

This comic extravaganza starts off funny, but exhausts rather than delights.

Brilliantly told and well-acted, Polanski's half tongue-in-cheek, lugubrious and sinister filmic style seemed quite refreshing at the time.

A rollicking comedic condensation of Fielding's sprawling novel about a lusty young man's adventures in 18th-Century England.

This was a small, low-budget picture that went straight for the heart and succeeded critically as well as financially.

A slick, glossy multi-character soap opera set in London's airport.