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Stuttgart-born film pioneer Paul Leni’s 1924 German Expressionist feast focuses on a young poet and writer (William Dieterle) who accepts a job from a waxworks proprietor to write a series of gothic stories for Harun al-Rashid […]
Robert Wiene’s legendary 1920 German silent horror film masterpiece The Cabinet of Dr Caligari stars Werner Krauss as the mad magician Dr Caligari, who hypnotises his tame somnambulist Cesare (Conrad Veidt) to carry out a series […]
Director Michael Powell and co-screenwriter Emeric Pressburger’s fast-moving, scintillating 1940 World War Two spy thriller Contraband [Blackout] reunites them with the brilliant screen team of Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson, the stars of their previous […]
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were first brought together by producer Alexander Korda to make the vivacious 1939 World War One spy thriller The Spy in Black starring Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson. British film-makers […]
Remaking Douglas Fairbanks Sr’s 1924 silent movie classic, The Thief of Bagdad, producer Alexander Korda’s brilliantly thrilling and gorgeous 1940 Arabian Nights fantasy gem The Thief of Bagdad overflows with dazzling magic, eye-popping designs and […]
You must remember this: arguably, the world’s best loved film and most perfect piece of cinema escapism. It didn’t look like it would amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world when Warner […]
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