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Director Michael Apted’s 1979 imaginative British biopic Agatha is based on a film story by Kathleen Tynan, and stars Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman and Timothy Dalton. It is helpfully advertised as ‘a fictional solution to […]
‘FROM THE GAY BEST-SELLER THAT STOLE AMERICA’S HEART!’ Director Lewis Allen’s popular 1944 episodic comedy drama Our Hearts Were Young and Gay stars Gail Russell and Diana Lynn, who give sparky turns as best pals trawling […]
Director Fred Guiol’s 1926 two-reel silent film 45 Minutes from Hollywood stars Glenn Tryon as Orville but it is remembered as the second time Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appear in the same film – […]
Writer-director Jess Robbins’s 1921 silent black and white short film The Lucky Dog makes screen history as the first film with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, though not as a comedy duo, but appearing in […]
A fine cast distinguishes director Henry King’s 1957 film The Sun Also Rises, 20th Century Fox’s CinemaScope, Deluxe Color version of Ernest Hemingway’s story of a ‘lost generation’ of 1920’s American ex-patriates living in Paris. […]
‘Question: What is the surest way to keep a husband home? Answer: Break both his legs.’ Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy leave their wives to go golfing, chased off by Mrs Hardy (Kay Deslys) after […]
William Inge’s renowned Pulitzer prize-winning play The Dark at the Top of the Stairs transfers to the screen in Delbert Mann’s good looking but vaguely unsatisfactory, rather stagey 1960 film production, lovingly adapted by screen-writing […]