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And so the Hammer Films trio of Christopher Lee, Thorley Walters and Terence Fisher head off for Germany and C Lee gets to play Sherlock Holmes following his role as Sir Henry Baskerville in Hammer’s […]
George Bernard Shaw’s clever, though minor play Caesar and Cleopatra is perfectly cast for the screen in 1945: Claude Rains as the ageing Roman conqueror Julius Caesar and Vivien Leigh as the young Nile beauty […]
A disappointing Cindy Carol takes over as the 17-year-old Gidget in returning director Paul Wendkos’s modest but nice-looking 1963 second sequel to Gidget (1959). And, guess what?, the ‘girl midget’ is off to Rome. Happily, James […]
‘Gooba-gobble, gooba-gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.’ MGM production supervisor Irving Thalberg, a man of discernment who produced immaculately tasteful films like Romeo and Juliet, ordered something that ‘out-horrors Frankenstein’. And director […]
Producer-director Cecil B DeMille’s incredibly lavish and kitsch 1934 epic version of the Cleopatra story is infectiously extravagant in every way, as befits the ultimate showman he was. He was determined to make a popular […]
In 1964, the Carry On team make one of their very best, most loved movies, hilariously spoofing Elizabeth Taylor’s film Cleopatra, using the sets they abandoned at Pinewood studios when filming moved to Cinecitta in […]
Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1963 epic film Cleopatra was more famous as a media event than a movie – it’s the moment when Elizabeth Taylor met Richard Burton, creating an unprecedented media storm that helped create […]
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