The Alternative History of Cinema

D. Anthony de La Sewell Colour This one is going to be like a dog whistle to bad movie lovers. Here we have Patsi Kensit, Elizabeth Hurl...

D. Marco De Freitas Colour Even ignoring the obvious, cannibalism was big in Italian cinema in the 1970s Here, for example, is Italian c...

D. Pierre de Franc Colour Michael Caine recently stated that he chose his movies on two criteria: whether it was going to make him a lot o...

D. Ted Grimley Colour The trio of films made in the 1970s where Tom Jones at the height of his pomp played a swinging sex-bomb private det...

D. Arnold Pouter B&W That rarest of things: an English Boris Karlofff movie. Boris Karloff just seems such an international figure. ...

D. Raoul Walsh B&W It made sense in 1936 to cast Jimmy Cagney as a tough hitting private detective. It meant that Cagney could do all ...

D. Otto Van De Mille Colour (although the sex scenes are in black & white, so we can pretend they’re art) The first Sexy Goth Detectiv...