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Co-writer/director John Huston’s intelligent and entertaining but only half-successful 1956 film version of the legendary Herman Melville classic novel stars Gregory Peck as one-legged ship’s Captain Ahab who obsessively pursues his adversary, the great whale […]
Charles Dickens’s tale of the young 19th-century English schoolmaster Nicholas Nickleby, who ends up with no source of income after his father dies and leaves his family destitute, is surprisingly flatly retold in director Alberto Cavalcanti’s […]
Malcolm Muggeridge came up with the idea for the Boulting Brothers’ thoughtful and entertaining 1963 satirical comedy film Heavens Above! Peter Sellers tickles the funny bone even in a largely serious performance as the Rev […]
Small is beautiful. Happy days with the ramshackle, debt-ridden old London fleapit cinema called The Bijou in the 1957 Brit comedy film The Smallest Show on Earth. Director Basil Dearden’s adorable 1957 British comedy classic […]
Director David Lean’s truly great, double Oscar-winning 1946 version of the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations is still the best version on film. It is even perhaps the best Dickens movie ever. The famous story centres on the […]
Alfred Hitchcock remakes his own 1934 spy thriller with great flair and success as the 1956 film The Man Who Knew Too Much starring James Stewart and Doris Day. The delightful Day sings the Oscar-winning […]
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