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The solid 1948 Warner Bros film noir gangster movie Flaxy Martin stars Virginia Mayo as the gold-digging showgirl Flaxy Martin, and Zachary Scott as the honest young lawyer who falls for and protects her. Director […]
A well-cast Robert Donat gives a strong and fervent performance as the British premier William Pitt the Younger, who was only 24 when he became first minister in 1783 as England’s youngest Prime Minister. It […]
John Ford was ailing and became sick while directing this 1964 autobiographical portrait of the young life of the playwright and writer Sean O’Casey (Rod Taylor, though he bears no resemblance to him) in Ireland, so Jack […]
Director Gerhard Lamprecht’s 1937 German version of Gustave Flaubert’s 1857 novel of Madame Bovary is heavy handed but intriguing, involving and well crafted. The iconic Polish silent movie star Pola Negri (1897–1987) makes an attractive […]
[Spoiler alert] Jean Renoir’s captivating and compelling 1934 film version of Gustave Flaubert’s classic literature novel story of how Emma Bovary (Valentine Tessier) is stifled after she marries boring Normandy doctor Charles Bovary (Pierre Renoir, […]
Ken Annaklin’s spirited 1949 British comedy The Huggetts Abroad is the third in the film trilogy spun off from the popular characters in 1947’s Holiday Camp. Director Ken Annaklin’s 1949 British comedy The Huggetts Abroad […]
The Huggetts are back in director Ken Annakin’s 1949 British comedy film comic tale of small-town corruption, obviously modelled on gently spoofing the popular American political dramas of the day. Jack Warner reprises his role as […]