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Director Ray Enright’s disappointingly flat-footed 1939 Warner Bros film version of the great 1936 Broadway hit musical by George Abbott, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart unfortunately lacks the spark and most of the music of […]
Director King Vidor’s incomparable 1937 version of the tear-jerker soap opera tale of a warm and gutsy but slatternly lower-class woman who sacrifices herself for her daughter was previously filmed in 1925, and remade as Stella in […]
UK cinema chain Odeon said it is closing five cinemas on 5 June 2023: Magdalen Street, Oxford; Rigby Road, Blackpool; Weston-super-mare; Ayr; and Banbury. Built by Frank Matcham, the 1,000-seat Oxford Odeon opened with The […]
Directors Merian C Cooper and Ernest B Schoedsack’s 1935 movie turns out not to be a version of the credited Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel but rather a tale of a gentle, peace-loving Pompeii blacksmith Marcus […]
Douglas Fairbanks Sr stars in one of his most famous and iconic roles as the king’s favoured knight The Earl of Huntingdon, who becomes the outlaw Robin Hood to protect the oppressed English people from the […]
Director Raoul Walsh’s robust and realistic 1940 classic stars George Raft and Humphrey Bogart as embattled long-haul truck driving brothers Joe and Paul Fabrini, shipping fruit from farms to the markets in Los Angeles. It’s […]
Eat your hearts out, Kevin Costner and Russell Crowe! The 1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood is simply the best. They can’t make them like this any more. Dashing, athletic and infectiously fun, Errol Flynn makes […]
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