The life story of Italian violinist and composer, Niccolò Paganini, who rose to fame as a virtuoso in the early 19th Century.
Trashy bio-pic has some good period details, but a lot of miserable performances; true, David Garrett knows how to play the violin, but obviously never learnt how to act.
During World War II, an American serviceman in London decides to impress
his English girlfriend by acting as an American gangster, which soon
turns deadly.
Ambitious wartime semi-Noir drama that drowns its intentions by staging a true-crime story in entirely artificial settings.
Halliwell (no star): "Based on actual events, but a movie that rarely seems more than a laboured fantasy and one that the public ignored."
Maltin**1/2: "Famed British tabloid fodder gets the low-budget "period" treatment. Mildly interesting account never quite jells, though some of the violence offers surprisingly stylized jolts. Lloyd is a lot more intersting than her costar here."
