The Garden of Allah was nominated for two Oscars and won a Special Award for Harold Rosson's Color Cinematography.

Universal In Ronald Neame’s heist movie, “Gambit,” Michael Caine plays a thief seeking to get a statuette owned by Herbert Lom, to which goal, he enlists the help of a Eurasian femme (Shirley McClaine, miscast). The movie owes its existence to the far more entertaining “Topkapi,” which launched a cycle of international productions with big […]

Gaily, Gaily (1969) In this adaptation of Ben Hecht memoirs about his years as a young Chicago reporter, Beau Bridges plays Ben Harvey. Director Norman Jewison has assembled an international cast, including Melina Mercouri as a madam, Brian Keith as a vet reporter, Hume Cronyn as a politico, but the film is vastly disappointing. Margot […]

In this World War II drama, directed by Lloyd Bacon, Richard Widmark plays Lt. Cmdr. John Lawrence, a navy commander assigned to replace the popular senior officer of a group of underwater demolition divers, known as the frogmen.

Funny Lady, the follow-up to Funny Girl, which made a movie star of Barbra Streisand, is not as good or entertaining as the 1968 movie. James Caan plays the young Billy Rose (James Caan), an ambitious lyricist, who charms Fanny into an association with him. Out of town, the show is a flop, and Fanny […]