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MGM’s 1950 Technicolor film Kim is a spectacular adventure classic based on Rudyard Kipling’s novel about an orphan boy (Dean Stockwell), recruited as a spy by the British for derring-do in 1880s India. Director Victor […]
‘Terror, Treachery and Treasure!’ Directors Robert S Baker and Monty Berman’s 1961 Eastmancolor and Dyaliscope adventure The Treasure of Monte Cristo [The Secret of Monte Cristo] is a British variation on the Alexandre Dumas tale […]
Director Bill Douglas’s 1986 British historical drama Comrades is a humane and spectacular epic account of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, the six Dorset agricultural workers who were transported to Australia in 1834 for trying to found […]
Peter Cushing stars in The Flesh and the Fiends as medical doctor Robert Knox who buys human corpses for research from the real-life murderous Burke (George Rose) and Hare (Donald Pleasence) in 1828 Edinburgh. ‘A […]
Producer-director George King’s 1939 thriller The Face at the Window stars Tod Slaughter at his most succulently barnstorming as Chevalier Lucio del Gardo in a 19th-century tale of an 1880 Paris deranged killer who keeps […]
Robert Wagner’s studio 20th Century Fox started to give him better roles in 1952. He plays the romantic male lead in Stars and Stripes Forever [Marching Along] (1952), a Technicolor biopic about the composer John […]
Director George Marshall’s 1948 Tap Roots is a bloodless Mississippi-set Civil War romantic drama with Susan Hayward and Van Heflin emoting to little effect as lovers, Southern belle Morna Dabney and Keith Alexander, trying to […]