Tag: Peter Vaughan died
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The 39 Steps *** (1959, Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Brenda de Banzie, Sidney James, Reginald Beckwith, James Hayter, Barry Jones, Faith Brook, Duncan Lamont) – Classic Movie Review 4490
Kenneth More does nicely in a smooth turn in the star part of Richard Hannay in director Ralph Thomas’s careful 1959 second screen version of John Buchan’s classic 1915 espionage novel. Hannay goes on the run after witnessing a hit-and-run accident involving a woman pushing a pram containing a gun instead of a baby. The film turns…
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The Remains of the Day ***** (1993, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Christopher Reeve, James Fox, Peter Vaughan, Hugh Grant) – Classic Movie Review 451
Director James Ivory’s and producer Ismail Merchant’s 1993 triumph is an awesomely meticulous adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker-prize-winning novel. Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson give the most incredibly impressive, subtle, miniaturist performances as Lord Darlington’s desperately emotionally repressed rule-bound head butler James Stevens and Miss Kenton, the life-affirming new housekeeper he finds himself gradually drawn to…