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Pay Day (1922) is Charles Chaplin’s final two-reel short film, running just 21 minutes. Chaplin writes, directs and stars in the film, made by First National Pictures. Chaplin plays a bricklayer house construction labourer, a […]
Director Thom Eberhardt’s 1988 British comedy film Without a Clue is a neat twist on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Holmes and Watson characters and stars Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones, Lysette Anthony, Paul Freeman, Peter […]
Director Clarence Brown’s 1952 film Plymouth Adventure is MGM’s costly, sincere and well made but oddly unexciting slab of history about the Pilgrim Fathers’ voyage from Plymouth in 1620 on the Mayflower and their hardships […]
In her film debut, Shirley Booth won the 1953 Best Actress Oscar and Golden Globe for her extraordinary performance (repeating her Tony award-winning stage role) in director Mann’s 1952 film version of William Inge’s famous […]
Jean Delannoy directs this strangely forgotten and sadly neglected 1943 film adaptation of the Tristan and Iseult [Isolde] legend, set in a magnificent château in 1940s France. The film’s neglect is truly surprisingly since the screenplay […]
Director Stuart Heisler’s effective 1947 melodrama stars Susan Hayward as fast-rising nightclub singer Angie Evans, who becomes a smashed-up woman and hits the bottle when her singing career goes flat, while her songwriter husband Ken […]
Director Abe Levitow’s 1962 animated feature of feline frolics is sweet and pleasant in the manner of Disney’s slightly better The AristoCats (1970) . The screenplay by Dorothy Jones, Chuck Jones and Ralph Wright tells […]