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The 1958 film China Doll is a rather soppy, outmoded romantic drama from old-time director Frank Borzage, set in the China Burma India Theatre of World War Two, with wartime cargo aircraft pilot Captain Cliff Brandon (Victor Mature) […]
‘Who were the misfits? The men who killed for sport… or those who fought for the buffalo!’… Producer-director Stanley Kramer’s 1971 Bless the Beasts and Children is based on Glendon Swarthout’s novel, and stars Billy […]
Director Rodney Ackland’s 1943 Thursday’s Child is a pleasant, well-made if slight little suburban family drama that has plenty of charm and appeal, though British distributors of the day neglected it. Sally Ann Howes stars […]
John Schlesinger’s imaginative, classic 1961 documentary short Terminus, now poignantly dated, about a day in the life of London’s Waterloo station, was made for British Transport Films. It won the 1962 BAFTA Film Award for […]
The beloved opera diva Maria Callas (dubbed, unfortunately, even in the original Italian version) stars in a non-singing role as Euripedes’s sorceress high priestess Medea, King of Colchis’s daughter, who returns to Corinth with her […]
Director Clive Donner’s 1982 Oliver Twist is an excellent TV movie version of the classic Charles Dickens tale starring George C Scott as an almost fatherly Fagin and Tim Curry as the evil thug Bill […]
‘Shirley’s a Little Swiss Miss in the Loveliest Story of Her Career!’ Director Allan Dwan’s 1937 children’s film Heidi is based on the much loved book by Johanna Spyri and stars an ideally cast Shirley […]