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‘From marble palace to teeming jungle all India rocked with the violence of the great rebellion!’ Director Laslo Benedek’s 1954 Bengal Brigade [Bengal Rifles] stars Rock Hudson, who struggles against his unwise casting in a […]
Director Robert Mulligan’s 1962 ambitious and well-intentioned failure The Spiral Road is based on Jan de Hartog’s novel and stars Rock Hudson as a mid-1930s stop-at-nothing doctor in trouble, bent on using Dr Brits Jansen […]
Mark Rylance is tremendous in a low-key, bright-burning performance as The Magistrate ruling benignly over an empire’s distant outpost, who is confronted by the arrival of evil torturing policeman Colonel Joll (Johnny Depp), in director Ciro […]
Director John Guillermin’s fascinating 1964 African-set adventure movie Guns at Batasi, with a theme about the passing of British colonialism, is greatly invigorated by stiff-lipped performances by Richard Attenborough, Flora Robson, Jack Hawkins and Cecil […]
The 69-year-old Ken Loach won the 2006 Cannes Film Festival’s top honour of the Palme d’Or for his impassioned, controversial Irish historical war drama, a tale of two fictional County Cork brothers fighting for Irish independence from the United […]
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