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The well-heeled 1935 British romantic film Mimi is based on Henri Murger’s 1851 novel La Vie de Bohème, and stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Gertrude Lawrence. Director Paul L Stein’s 1935 British black and white […]
Warner Bros’ embarrassing, quite ghastly 1947 American romantic melodrama film Escape Me Never is set in Venice at the turn of the 20th century, and stars Errol Flynn, Ida Lupino, Eleanor Parker and Gig Young. […]
The 1941 film Whistling in the Dark is a modest, amusing comedy mystery thriller vehicle for the dizzy comic Red Skelton as Wally Benton, a radio murder mystery show star called The Fox. Director S […]
Director John Baxter’s sentimental, well-meaning 1941 British melodrama film The Common Touch is a remake of his 1933 film Doss House and stars Geoffrey Hibbert, Greta Gynt, Raymond Lovell, Harry Welchman, and Joyce Howard. It is about […]
Melissa Gilbert is excellent as Anne Frank in director Boris Sagal’s strongly cast, stalwart, moving 1980 TV movie remake of the 1959 feature film The Diary of Anne Frank. It re-tells the real-life story of […]
Director Jamie Thraves’s 2009 psychological crime thriller film The Cry of the Owl is a really rather satisfactory English language remake of Claude Chabrol’s 1987 French film Le Crie du Hibou, adapting Patricia Highsmith’s 1962 […]
The 1966 thriller film The Boy Cried Murder is a remake of the much admired 1949 film The Window, based on Cornell Woolrich’s novelette. Former child actor turned director George P Breakston’s uninspired 1966 British/ […]