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Gertrud: ‘The man I’m with must be completely mine. I must come before everything. I don’t want to be an occasional plaything.’ Writer-director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1964 Danish black and white classic film Gertrud is […]
Director Don Sharp’s controversial 1975 British topical action thriller Hennessy stars Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, Richard Johnson, Trevor Howard, Eric Porter and Peter Egan. British soldiers kill Irish explosives man Niall Hennessy (Steiger)’s wife and […]
Writer-director Trevor Nunn’s 1975 drama Hedda is a moderate, rather heavy-going, and uncinematic but beautifully acted film version of Jackson’s Royal Shakespeare Company stage performance as Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. Nunn adapts it from the […]
Steve Allen stars – quite impressively too – in writer-director Valentine Davies’s 1956 The Benny Goodman Story, a sentimental fictionalised musical around the career of Benny Goodman, the ace clarinet player from Chicago’s Jewish quarter, […]
Director Bruce Beresford’s 1985 King David is an unsuccessful attempt to retell the tale of David and Bathsheba, in a biblical film that did not do Richard Gere’s career any good at all. Gere and […]
‘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 […]
Directed by Henry Hathaway’s 1935 fantasy romance drama Peter Ibbetson is based on the novel by George du Maurier and a stage version of 1917, the play by John Nathaniel Raphael, and stars Gary Cooper, […]