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In 1951 the MGM studio uses the excuse of colour and widescreen to remake James Whale’s superb 1936 black and white film of the vintage Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical about turn-of-the-last-century Mississippi river folk. […]
Director John Huston’s worthy but miscalculated 1966 Old Testament epic boasts a spectacular production and beautiful widescreen images, courtesy ace cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno. But, alas, it is dragged down by an uninspiring screenplay (even though playwright […]
Director Martin Scorsese’s patchy, rambling and overlong 2004 biopic of legendary film director and plane and movie mogul Howard Hughes is sometimes hard work, and nothing new emerges. But it re-tells a story most people won’t know […]
The 1964 film version of Tennessee Williams’s play The Night of the Iguana is beautifully handled by director John Huston, with the dream cast of Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr and Sue Lyon giving […]