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D W Griffith’s famed 1918 silent World War One flagwaver propaganda drama Hearts of the World has a scenario by Griffith, in which a French family suffers as their son, Douglas Gordon Hamilton (Robert Harron) […]
Sophia Loren was blacklisted in Arab countries after playing a Jewish woman in Judith (1966). Director Daniel Mann’s 1966 drama Judith [Conflict] stars Sophia Loren, Peter Finch and Jack Hawkins but does not have much […]
Viva Villa! (1934) and an MGM mess in Mexico… Directors Jack Conway and Howard Hawks’s fictionalised 1934 historical adventure Viva Villa! Stars the irrepressible Wallace Beery, who shines as the Mexican revolutionary bandit Pancho Villa, […]
Director Howard Hawks’s impeccably made 1936 war drama The Road to Glory, based on the novel by Roland Dorgeles, follows a division of the French army as they struggle through the horrors of World War […]
Director Monty [Montague] Banks’s 1941 black and white wartime comedy Great Guns stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, trying only partly successfully to revamp their career with a new studio (20th Century Fox), as soft, […]
Director Edgar G Ulmer’s 1960 black and white Sci-Fi film The Amazing Transparent Man is cheap and cheerful, and still enjoyable despite – or because of – the rotten effects and cheesy action. To create […]
Director Cy Endfield’s 1972 war action drama Universal Soldier stars ex-Bond George Lazenby as mercenary Ryker, a gun for hire back in London with a view to a kill. Feminist Germaine Greer plays a feminist […]