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The right stars in Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead crank up writer-director Crane Wilbur’s creaky 1959 version of the maniac-in-the-mansion stage chiller play The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Price plays Dr Malcolm Wells. Moorehead plays […]
Admired cult director Douglas Sirk’s gloriously plush 1955 romantic melodrama All That Heaven Allows stars Jane Wyman as the lovely New England upper-class widow Cary Scott who falls for the down-to-earth, hunky, romantic, much younger […]
Director Henry Hathaway’s ultra-tense, meticulously crafted 1951 film noir thriller is an absolutely excellent one. The exteriors are imaginatively shot on location on the streets of New York City. The building used was demolished in 1967 […]
Director Robert Stevenson’s 1943 movie is an impressively powerful and moody American version of the Charlotte Brontë classic about the Victorian orphan who becomes a governess in a strange Yorkshire household at Thornfield Hallruled over by […]
Norman Foster’s nailbiting 1942 film noir adventure thriller Journey into Fear bears more than a hint of the stamp of Orson Welles, who started the production, directed his own scenes, assembled a lot of his […]
Director Peter Godfrey’s 1948 film version of Wilkie Collins’s famous classic Gothic novel The Woman in White is a rich and thoroughly enjoyable entertainment. At its centre, Sydney Greenstreet gives an enormously compelling, masterly villainous […]
Director Jack Smight’s 1973 finds the British gay novelist Christopher Isherwood and his lifelong partner the artist Don Bachardy setting out together to re-interpret the Mary Shelley classic novel in a back-to-basics, faithful kind of way, […]