The last work of Russia’s most acclaimed revolutionary director Sergei M Eisenstein was intended as a trilogy but only two parts were completed. Filming stopped after Part II was banned, but Part III’s concept is […]
After several years of working in experimental theatre, the great Russian director Sergei M Eisenstein made a dazzling cinema début with this forceful 1925 evocation of a strike by oppressed Russian factory workers in the pre-revolutionary […]
The great Russian director Sergei M Eisenstein is on top, brilliant form in this remarkable 1938 Soviet historical epic (set in 1242) that climaxes in Prince Alexander Nevsky (Nikolay Cherkasov), the saint and soldier of […]
Director George Marshall’s 1936 A Message to Garcia tells an imaginary tale based on a real-life incident in which Lieutenant Andrew S Rowan (John Boles) takes US President William McKinley’s message of support to General Garcia […]
Director Richard Boleslawski’s enjoyable 1935 musical romantic drama Metropolitan is mainly memorable for the marvellous baritone singing of Lawrence Tibbett, who plays a young singer desperate for his big break. Although Tibbett shows that he […]
Director Frank Borzage brings W Somerset Maugham’s 1921 stage hit The Circle to the screen with some great moments between Eleanor Boardman as Elizabeth Cheney and Creighton Hale as Arnold Cheney in this beautifully shot […]
John Ford’s good-looking 1928 silent movie Hangman’s House is a romantic drama set in County Wicklow, Ireland. Based on a novel by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne, it is adapted by Philip Klein with scenarios by Marion Orth and with inter-titles written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan. […]
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