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Director John Cromwell’s 1946 double Oscar-winning drama Anna and the King of Siam is the original non-musical version of the real-life tale of young English Victorian governess Anna Owens [Leonowens], who goes to Bangkok in […]
Director Albert Zugsmith’s 1962 black and white mystery crime drama Confessions of an Opium Eater [Evils of Chinatown] stars Vincent Price, who gets to go over the top again as 19th-century adventurer Gilbert De Quincey, […]
The Four Feathers (1929) is Paramount Pictures’s final all-silent movie, though with a synchronised score (by William F Peters) and a few sound effects. This silent film with added synchronised sound but no dialogue is […]
The tremendous, starry cast means the singing and acting are thoroughly rousing in director Francesco Rosi’s 1984 film of the Georges Bizet opera Carmen, but it is less thrilling and imaginative as cinema than the […]
Writer-director Giuseppe Colizzi’s violent 1969 Spaghetti Western film Boot Hill [La Collina degli Stivali] has too much broad, off-target comedy and offers yet another popular, if easily resistible pairing of Terence Hill (as Cat Stevens!) […]
Director José Ferrer’s 1958 historical biographical drama I Accuse! tells the story of the 1894 Alfred Dreyfus treason case, in which the innocent Jewish French army captain is is falsely accused of spying for Germany […]
Based on an actual incident, director Edward Dmytryk’s meaty 1966 American Civil War Western saga Alvarez Kelly is firm enough in its staunch liberal-minded principles to stay on course when the unravelling of the plot occasionally […]