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Writer-director Delmer Daves’s 1953 Technicolor adventure Treasure of the Golden Condor is 18th-century Latin American costume-drama nonsense with Cornel Wilde as a young Frenchman, Jean-Paul, swindled out of a fortune by his wicked uncle, the Marquis de […]
Director George Sidney’s 1952 MGM rip-snorting Technicolor adventure tale Scaramouche is based on the 1921 novel by Rafael Sabatini and has main star Stewart Granger swashing a florid buckle as André-Louis Moreau, who needs to wreak […]
Director Patrice Leconte concocts an ingratiating and unusual French costume drama of sex, wit, intrigue and drainage at the court of King Louis XVI (Urbain Cancelier) in 1780, in his 1996 pleasure Ridicule. Charles Berling […]
Floundering Flanders ‘I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.’ Paramount clearly wanted to turn Daniel Defoe’s 1722 novel into a cash-in on the success of 1963’s Tom Jones […]
Russian director Sergei Parajanov’s 1969 world cinema classic The Colour of Pomegranates [Sayat Nova] [Tsvet Granata] is his finest hour, an unforgettable feast of colour-drenched tableaux showing the spiritual growth of a boy into manhood. […]
Producer-director-showman Cecil B DeMille’s 1947 pioneer picture Unconquered, in which American colonists battle the Indians, is engagingly overblown and amusingly daft. It is shot in glorious Technicolor. Paulette Goddard plays Abby Hale, a cockney convict transported […]
Writer-director Ken Loach’s dark and complex 1979 costume adventure drama is based on Leon Garfield’s novel about the adventures of a roguish 18th-century French sailor and thief called Black Jack (Jean Franval) in Yorkshire who […]