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John Ford’s good-looking 1928 silent movie Hangman’s House is a romantic drama set in County Wicklow, Ireland. Based on a novel by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne, it is adapted by Philip Klein with scenarios by Marion Orth and with inter-titles written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan. […]
Director André Techiné’s beautifully handled, poignant and delicate semi-autobiographical 1994 film tells the complex and emotionally satisfying story about teens coming of age in Sixties France at the time of the Algerian War. The film stars Frédéric Gorny, […]
Director Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1965 film is a masterly reconstruction in CinemaScope of violent events in Algiers from 1954 to 1957, with an intense personal tale about a petty criminal (Brahim Haggiag [Hadjadj]) recruited into the […]
In one of his most famous parts, Jean Gabin lights up the screen as Paris gangster Pépé le Moko, who hides out from the law in the Casbah in Algiers but gets arrested when leaving […]
Come viz me to zee Casbah, for director John Berry’s irresistibly daft 1948 musical fantasy adventure, gaudily cast with Yvonne De Carlo as the lovely siren Inez, Tony Martin as the thief Pepe Le Moko, […]
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