Barry Norman presents his personal review of the week's cinema releases.
Angel Heart (1987), written and directed by Alan Parker. Mickey Rourke plays a seedy private detective in a powerful thriller set in New York and New Orleans. Controversy surrounded the film when it was X-rated in America. Parker cut ten seconds to please the American censor.
John Huston, the veteran film director, famous for such films as The African Queen and The Maltese Falcon died last month. From the set of
Mr. North (1988), a film in which he was to have appeared, Film 87 spoke to his daughter, Anjelica Huston, Robert Mitchum and Lauren Bacall about both the film and John Huston himself.
—Radio Times