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Producer-director Gregory La Cava’s 1939 screwball romantic comedy Fifth Avenue Girl [5th Ave Girl] is a sweet Hollywood fairy tale starring Ginger Rogers as a penniless, on-the-dole, plain-Jane called Mary Grey, who is taken in […]
Director Jerrold Freedman’s earnest and honorable 1986 drama Native Son is the second film version of Richard Wright’s powerful 1940 novel about Bigger Thomas (Victor Love), a poor, African American young man in Thirties Chicago who takes a […]
Director Norman Tokar’s 1977 British film for children is an amusing Disney adventure comedy, with a jolly script and a superb cast of scene-stealers. Leo McKern plays small-time crook Harry Bundage, who dupes American urchin Casey Brown […]
There is plenty of zing and sparkle, and there are lots of laughs too to be found in director Alfred Santell’s engaging, fast-paced 1937 romantic comedy, with its two stars Barbara Stanwyck and Herbert Marshall […]
Jean Simmons stars on her most outrageously malicious form as Diane Tremayne, the dangerously psychopathic young woman with the sensuous angel face, in the ferocious 1953 film noir melodrama 1953 Angel Face. Angel Face is […]
L P Hartley’s class-conscious novel set in 1923 about a chauffeur, Steven Ledbetter (Robert Shaw), who befriends and falls for his posh, disturbed mistress Lady Franklin (Sarah Miles) may be a trifle thin and sedate as cinema. […]
Director Richard Wilson’s capable and underrated 1963 drama is a standard marital soap opera with a seemingly arbitrary horse-racing background tacked on just for colour. But that turns out to be a good thing. Colour […]