Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "banned film"

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Island in the Sun ** (1957, James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, John Williams, Joan Collins, Michael Rennie) – Classic Movie Review 5,677

Hollywood struggles to bring the Alec Waugh bestseller about the troubled lives and inter-racial loves in the exotic Fifties British West Indies to the screen, in the then controversial 1957 drama film Island in the […]

Jun, 28

Battleship Potemkin [Bronenosets Potyomkin] ***** (1925, Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov) – Classic Movie Review 4919

Co-writer/director Sergei M Eisenstein’s 1925 Soviet silent movie classic recreates the successful sailors’ revolt against their officers aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin in Odessa harbour in 1905 when faced with eating maggot-ridden food. Eisenstein’s dramatised […]

Jan, 22

No Orchids for Miss Blandish * (1948, Jack La Rue, Hugh McDermott, Linden Travers) – Classic Movie Review 4,766

The 1948 British thriller film No Orchids for Miss Blandish of the novel by James Hadley Chase landed in a censorship row after it was passed in the UK with an uncut ‘A’ rating and […]

Dec, 06

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom *** (1975, Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle, Franco Merli, Sergio Fascetti) – Classic Movie Review 3199

Director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s infamous, highly controversial, problematic final film, based on the Marquis de Sade’s novel The 120 Days of Sodom, was made shortly before his murder on 2 November 1975, aged 53, and released […]

Dec, 30

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