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Director William Clemens’s 1941 Paramount Pictures black and white mystery crime drama B-movie The Night of January 16th stars Ellen Drew as secretary Kit Lane who is actually the brunt of an embezzlement scam involving […]
‘I Think I’ll be Killin’ you Now!’ Director John Griffith Wray’s 1923 Anna Christie is the greatly admired silent movie version of Nobel prize-winner Eugene O’Neill’s hard-going 1921 play about the romance of the seaside […]
The hit series of film adaptations of the Aldwych Farces began with the big box office hit Rookery Nook in 1930 and ran throughout the Thirties. Rookery Nook was the first London theatre Aldwych farce, […]
The London Aldwych Theatre farce acting trio of Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn and Robertson Hare are back for director Tom Walls’s 1933 black and white British farce Turkey Time from the expert Ben Travers. It […]
Director Henry King’s 1935 Way Down East is a mostly dull and soppy Fox Studio sound version remake of D W Griffith’s famous 1920 silent melodrama Way Down East about a done-wrong-by young woman called […]
Katharine Hepburn stars in director George Cukor’s touching 1979 made-for-TV version of Emlyn Williams’s famous semi-autobiographical 1938 hit play The Corn Is Green (which originally starred Ethel Barrymore) about an 1890s Welsh unmarried teacher and […]
Writer-director Kenneth Branagh again brings William Shakespeare to mainstream audiences with his 1993 hit adaptation of hit Much Ado About Nothing. It is a very jovial romp through Shakespeare’s attractive lightweight romance, filmed with much […]