Fernando di Leo’s 1975 Italian crime thriller reworks the premise of Kurosawa’s ‘High and Low’ as a brutal portrait of class, power, and vengeance.
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The original ‘The Wicked Lady’ on VOD
Wicked is the operative term in The Wicked Lady (1945), an outsized, overwrought, gleefully excessive Gothic-pulp melodrama and the famous and most successful film made by the British studio Gainsborough. Margaret Lockwood takes title billing as the dark-hearted friend to the very model of generosity (played by Patricia Roc) and she begins the film by […]