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The 1940 adventure film The Sea Hawk is a thrilling vintage sea-borne swashbuckler telling a new story based on the exploits of Sir Francis Drake. Errol Flynn is on his finest swashbuckling form as the […]
Based on the novel by Earl Hamner Jr, this wholesome, inspiring 1963 family saga is pleasingly warm-hearted and effortlessly appealing, and proved the template for The Waltons TV series which ran from 1972 to 1981, […]
Emil Zola: ‘I shall tell the truth. Because if I did not, my nights would be haunted by the spectre of an innocent man expiating under the most frightful torture a crime he never committed.’ […]
Producer Samuel Goldwyn and director William Wyler’s 1939 vintage movie version of Emily Brontë’s perennially enchanting classic yarn is splendidly romantic, atmospheric and rousing. It stars the lustrous Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon in the […]
Director William Wyler’s double Oscar-winning 1938 romantic drama Jezebel stars Bette Davis, who grabs one of the best chances of her glorious career by the scruff of its neck and triumphs. In many ways this is Davis […]
Director Lewis Allen’s 1944 classic supernatural mystery romance is a superlatively spooky ghost story, treated admirably seriously, about a brother and sister (Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey) having a holiday on Cornwall, where they fall in love with, […]
Director Anthony Mann’s superb 1955 Western is the fifth and final fruit of his splendid collaboration with James Stewart. Stewart plays The Man from Laramie, Will Lockhart, the stranger who rides into town looking for […]