This is an effective satire directed by Luis Berlanga that pans charity from the head — the cold, calculated or unthinking kind — as versus charity from the heart. The focus is on Placido (Casto Sendra-Cassen), a truckdriver who…
Originally released in Italy as Film dAmore e dAnarchia, Lina Wertmullers Love and Anarchy is set in the fascist-dominated Italy of the 1930s. Giancarlo Giannini plays an idealistic farmer swept up in an anti-fascist underground movement. His first task…
Samuel Fuller directed and cowrote this typically hard-boiled drama set in Japan following World War II. Eddie Kenner (Robert Stack) is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson (Robert Ryan), a…
