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French garage mechanic Charlie (Xavier Gélin) sabotages cars and takes the stranded motorists to stay at struggling owner the Marquise (Madeleine Renaud)’s mountain area hotel. But they get a shock when the baron César Maricorne […]
Marlene Dietrich, finally separated by her Paramount Pictures studio from her Svengali director Josef Von Sternberg after a string of hits, fares only modestly with the highly respected director Rouben Mamoulian in the 1933 love […]
Robert Hardy stars as Zorn, a 19th-century Bavarian baron who keeps his teenaged children Elizabeth and Emil (Gillian Hills, Shane Briant) locked away and drugged for fear that the family insanity is hereditary. The madness is […]
Arletty and Alain Cuny star as minstrels Dominique and Gilles in this enchanting 1942 wartime classic from director Marcel Carné. They arrive at the Baron Hugues (Fernand Ledoux)’s castle in 1485 while the betrothal of […]
Boris Karloff grabs his chance to play a pair of cursed Jekyll-and-Hyde-style brothers in director Roy William Neill’s sleek and eerie 1935 Gothic chiller showcasing two of Boris’s most effective turns. Karloff really relishes playing both […]
‘No one will be admitted while the coffin is being opened!’ The Terror (1963) is a semi-celebrated glimpse of the skill and ingenuity of Roger Corman in putting together a project when once again confronted […]
Co-writer/director Terry Gilliam’s dazzling and spectacular 1988 fantasy comedy adventure epic stars ideally cast theatre actor John Neville. He is on commanding form as Baron Munchausen, the 18th-century Prussian aristocrat who travels around the universe, enjoys wartime exploits […]