Action
The enduring popularity of the action movie has drenched the genre in cliche yet glorious invention abounds around the globe - fighting is the international language. Fashionable styles of film-making come and go but action movies just change their shoes and remain centre-stage.
Great glittering galaxies of genre from across the Alice universe have been gleaned to assemble a suitably kick-ass selection of ballistic ballet and poetic pugilism to scintillate the delicate senses of our discerning clientele. Are you ready to rumble? Are you feeling lucky, Sir/Madame? Our suggestions for a hearty evening of action are listed below.
Pictured: Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang springs into action. Sean Connery as agent 007 in "Diamonds are Forever" (1971).
The Lone Ranger / The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1956)
Director: Stuart Heisler, Lesley Selander
Starring: Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels
"Who was that masked man?" Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice - beginning with his radio debut, then movie se... Read more
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)
7.7/10
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Koji Tsurata, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Okada, Michiko Saga, Takas...
Hiroshi Inagaki's acclaimed Samurai Trilogy is based on the novel that has been called Japan's "Gone with the Wind". This sweeping saga of the legenda... Read more
Attack! (1956)
7.5/10
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Jack Palance, Eddie Albert, Lee Marvin, Buddy Ebsen
This compelling WWII drama from the director of "The Dirty Dozen" is set in Belgium in 1944, where cowardly American Captain Eddie Albert has placed o... Read more
The Rains Of Ranchipur (Blu-ray) (1955)
5.8/10
Director: Jean Negulesco
Starring: Lana Turner, Richard Burton, Fred MacMurray, Joan Caulfield, Michael Rennie
Despite marital problems, English Lord Albert Esketh and his rich American socialite wife Lady Edwina Esketh travel to India to buy a prize horse from... Read more
Man Without a Star (1955)
7/10
Director: King Vidor
Starring: Claire Trevor, Jeanne Crain, Kirk Douglas, Richard Boone, William Campbell
In this deceptively titled and paced Western, Kirk Douglas shines in the hyper-macho role of Dempsey Rae, a good-natured drifter with a mysterious pas... Read more
Blood Alley (1955)
6.3/10
Director: William A Wellman
Starring: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Paul Fix, Anita Ekberg
Produced during the height of the Cold War and stars John Wayne as he and Lauren Bacall lead a group of Chinese refugees along a dangerous waterway. Read more
Alexander the Great (1955)
5.9/10
Director: Robert Rossen
Starring: Richard Burton, Fredric March, Claire Bloom
An epic historical drama of the military leader who conquered most of the known world before he was 30. Richard Burton gives a fine performance as the... Read more
Seven Samurai (1954)
8.7/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Yoshio Inaba, Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura
One of the most beloved movie epics of all time, Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhab... Read more
Apache (1954)
6.4/10
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Jean Peters, John McIntire, Charles Bronson
Burt Lancaster plays an Apache warrior who continues to fight the army for his peoples' rights after Geronimo's defeat, (actually based on fact). Jea... Read more
Battle Cry (1954)
6.6/10
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson
Based on the novel by Leon Uris, a group of servicemen through boot camp then on to New Zealand where even more training takes place (and a romance be... Read more