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MGM Studios assembles a top-notch cast for director Tay Garnett’s great 1935 adventure yarn of piracy and romance on the high seas. Aboard ship Hong Kong to Singapore are dynamic, hard-drinking captain Alan Gaskell (Clark Gable), his […]
MGM’s fine young thoroughbreds Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland appear together for the first time in director Alfred E Green’s slight but pleasant 1937 tale with music, as horse-racing Timmie Donovan (Mickey) mixes with crooks and Judy […]
‘Beware the stare that will paralyse the will of the world.’ Co-writer/director Wolf Rilla’s 1960 British thriller Village of the Damned is securely based on John Wyndham’s classic sci-fi novel The Midwich Cuckoos about a […]
After a 14-year gap, writer-director David Lean made a spectacular comeback in 1984 with his accomplished and satisfying adaptation of the E M Forster classic novel about the eye-opening first visit to India of a […]
Let’s Twist again! Or maybe not? Producer-director Roman Polanski comes up with a disappointment in 2005 – a pedestrian, plodding and uninspired movie version of the classic Charles Dickens tale, but nevertheless with some excellent […]
Likeable and engaging, director Mira Nair’s 2004 film is a very fair if slightly uninspired stab at filming a difficult novel, plodding relentlessly through the seemingly endless and complex detail and plotlines of William Makepeace […]
Perdita Weeks stars as a Lara Croft-style English posh lady tomb raider, who leads a team of explorers into the catacombs beneath the streets of Paris. What lies beneath in the ancient drains isn’t exactly what she […]