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The 1944 American drama film Mr Skeffington stars Bette Davis as a selfish, vain and bitchy woman who marries Jewish financier Job Skeffington (Claude Rains) only to save her brother from going to prison. Director […]
George Stevens’s 1965 biblical epic film The Greatest Story Ever Told stars Max von Sydow, who brings his much needed dignity and nobility to his portrayal of Jesus Christ in this story of his life. […]
Director George Waggner’s 1941 classic Universal Studios horror movie stars Lon Chaney Jnr as The Wolf Man, Lawrence Stewart Talbot, who turns into a werewolf (with the help of Jack Pierce’s outstanding makeup) when a […]
Legendary director Frank Capra’s perfectly honed, much-loved 1939 classic Mr Smith Goes to Washington is a politically-minded comedy drama follow-up to his triumphant 1936 Gary Cooper movie Mr Deeds Goes to Town. Mr Smith centres […]
The Invisible Man (1933) is one of the great Universal horror movies. Claude Rains became an overnight star as scientist Dr Jack Griffin, who invents an invisibility serum and turns himself invisible, but then terrorises […]
Double Oscar-winner Bette Davis stars in one of her most famous roles as plain, over-weight Boston spinster Charlotte Vale, repressed and dominated by her wealthy mother Mrs Henry Vale (Gladys Cooper). Paying the proverbial ugly […]
Universal studios light comedy specialist Arthur Lubin turns his hand to the screen’s classic of terror in 1943. And he makes a neat job of directing this incredibly beautiful, extremely opulent version of the 1925 […]