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Director René Clément’s 1971 thriller stars Faye Dunaway as Jill, an American in Paris, and Frank Langella as Philippe, her computer wiz boyfriend, who suddenly decides to quit his job. Jill is upset but then she […]
Director Ken Annakin’s enjoyable 1955 British Technicolor comedy Value for Money is based on a novel by Derrick Boothroyd and stars John Gregson as Chayley Broadbent, a blunt English Northerner who inherits rag-trade wealth and goes to London […]
Writer-director Val Guest’s intriguing, delightfully frivolous 1944 British comedy is about a group of drop-outs who found The White Elephant Club above a London Soho restaurant, run by Nina, a beautiful young White Russian émigrée (Margaret […]
Director John Ford’s 1941 Great Depression-era comedy drama film Tobacco Road makes a tasty meal of Erskine Caldwell’s novel of Georgia poor farm folk dispossessed of their land. Charley Grapewin and Elizabeth Patterson hold centre stage […]
The 1946 British wartime drama film Piccadilly Incident stars Anna Neagle as a World War Two W.R.E.N, who encounters stranger Michael Wilding in a blacked-out Piccadilly, London, during an air raid. Producer-director Herbert Wilcox’s 1946 […]
Stewart Granger stars in director Arthur Crabtree’s dashing, lurid, wildly over-the-top 1946 Gainsborough Pictures British black and white melodrama as Richard Darrell, a brave but penniless English writer sent by Don Carlos (Gerard Heinz) to take […]
Director Bernard Knowles’s 1946 historical biographical music drama stars Stewart Granger, who unfortunately is hopelessly miscast and all at sea as the Italian violin virtuoso and composer Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840), who falls for the French […]