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The 1953 Technicolor film Prince of Pirates stars John Derek as Prince Roland, who leads a revolt against his tyrannical brother, in this passable 16th-century European adventure. Naturally, Derek wins the day and fair maiden […]
Cluny Brown (1946) is the last film that Ernst Lubitsch completed before his death on 30 November 1947 at the age of 55. His final film, the American Technicolor musical film That Lady in Ermine […]
Producer-director Ernst Lubitsch’s 1930 Paramount Pictures black and white film Monte Carlo is a witty, delightful early talkie musical starring Jeanette MacDonald as Countess Helene Mara, who, though about to wed silly Duke Otto von […]
Director Erik Charrell’s 1934 Caravan is a flop piece of musical romantic whimsy with a strained script and mediocre songs, and poor Charles Boyer struggling as Latzi, a Hungarian violinist trapped between Countess Wilma (Loretta […]
For his 1964 film Sei Donne per Assassino [Blood and Black Lace], the Italian horror maestro director Mario Bava turns in a visually stylish but pretty dodgy and scarily grisly horror mystery thriller about a […]
After their bust-up, Dean Martin stars for the first time without his long-term screen partner Jerry Lewis, in director Richard Thorpe’s meek and mild MGM 1957 musical comedy set in a Rome hotel. It is […]
Producer Alexander Korda comes up with the good idea of teaming Marlene Dietrich and Robert Donat shortly before World War Two with the lavishly atmospheric 1937 period thriller film Knight without Armour, based on James […]