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The 1940 adventure film The Sea Hawk is a thrilling vintage sea-borne swashbuckler telling a new story based on the exploits of Sir Francis Drake. Errol Flynn is on his finest swashbuckling form as the […]
Writer-director Harold French’s 1952 British suspense thriller has four inestimable advantages. First, it is based on an excellent novel by Georges Simenon, the creator of Maigret. Second, it stars Claude Rains, who goes properly over the […]
Producer-director Ray Milland hires himself in 1956 to star his thriller Lisbon as an ex-US Navy ship’s skipper, now adventurer-smuggler, Captain Robert John Evans. With Lisbon, Milland moves into direction, the first of several offbeat, low-budget films including himself as […]
Heavenly aide Edward Everett Horton mistakenly despatches a boxer called Joe Pendleton (Robert Montgomery) up to the celestial resting place 50 years too early on the very eve of becoming world boxing champ. Although he’s […]
Dick Powell plays Napoleon’s younger brother Captain Jerome Bonaparte. But it is Marion Davies as Betsy Patterson, a Baltimore woman he loves and marries, who stars in the well-made 1936 film Hearts Divided Dick Powell […]
Director William Dieterle’s stirring and starry 1939 historical epic stars Paul Muni as the Mexican lawyer, politician and revolutionary Benito Pablo Juárez García (21 March 1806 – 18 July 1872). Juárez resisted the French occupation […]
Bette Davis re-teams with her Now, Voyager co-stars Claude Rains and Paul Henreid for Warner Bros’ vintage 1946 film noir romantic drama Deception. For director Irving Rapper’s vintage 1946 film noir romantic drama Deception, Warner […]