My Forbidden Past "Birds of Prey"Robert Mitchum and Ava Gardner star in this steamy historical melodrama about a beauty who seeks revenge on the suitor who jilted her. When Barbara Beaurevel (Gardner) inherits a substantial fortune from her grandmother, she hopes to wipe away her wealthy but scandalous family's stigma by using her money to help others. Barbara is in love with Dr. Mark Lucas (Mitchum), but since he is married there is little she can do to win his affection.
this seven-hour epic was scripted by novelist Evan Hunter and features an extraordinary cast that includes Alice Krige
only to find herself behind the eight ball in a classified lonely hearts crime ring
she's a widow and a dowdy dresser who strides through crime scenes in sensible shoes
"Anything worth newspaper space is worth a movie
the grandeur and revolutionary fervor of 18th-century France sweeps across the screen
The Biggest Bundle of Them All is an imaginative
Tom is offered the lawman's position when it's learned he won't carry a gun
The FBI's third season had the craft of creating teleplays "produced with full government cooperation and based on real FBI cases" down to a science - well before today's forensic descendants
the hooch dancer is a headliner
Winter Meeting is a moving film experience any time of year
beautiful and poetic Z-films ever made" (Chicago Reader)
A personal triumph for director-producer-writer-composer Gordon Parks (adapting his novel)
