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The Green Glove (1952) script is by Charles Bennett. The whole stolen bejewelled gauntlet idea is a MacGuffin, which reminds us that Bennett is best known for his work with Alfred Hitchcock. Director Rudolph Maté’s […]
Director Camilo Vila’s 1988 horror The Unholy stars Trevor Howard as blind priest Father Silva, who takes on the forces of Satan, in this powerful, solidly plotted chiller. Ben Cross and Hal Holbrook co-star as […]
Writer-director Peter Greenaway’s 1993 historical shocker The Baby of Mâcon is a fictional Middle Ages tale about an unexpected baby born to a grotesque woman way beyond child-bearing age is told as a three-act play […]
Minister’s son Oscar (Ralph Fiennes) and heiress Lucinda (Cate Blanchett) fall in love in Victorian England in director Gillian Armstrong’s 1997 movie of Peter Carey’s mid-1800s period novel Oscar and Lucinda. The film is a […]
Director Claude Autant-Lara’s 1954 French romantic drama Le Rouge et le Noir [The Red and the Black] is a good-looking, attractively acted adaptation of the once scandalous 1831 Stendhal novel, in which humble Julien Sorel […]
The 1986 TV movie Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage again stars Joan Hickson, who takes on her fifth case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on Agatha Christie’s first novel to feature Miss […]
Director Guy Green’s 1974 film Luther is another interesting item from producer Ely Landau’s American Film Theatre movie series in the Seventies. Released in January 1974, Luther is the fifth of the 13 films. Edward Anhalt […]