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Finding first choice Stewart Granger otherwise engaged, MGM studios cast their then waning star Robert Taylor as the disowned knight Ivanhoe in director Richard Thorpe’s thoroughly enjoyable Normans versus Saxons 1952 mediaeval swashbuckler Ivanhoe, derived […]
The nifty 1958 British gothic horror thriller film Corridors of Blood stars great horror icons Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee, along with Betta St John, Finlay Currie and Francis Matthews. Director Robert Day’s nifty 1958 […]
Director Michael Anderson’s 1956 Technicolor epic action adventure comedy film triumphed on Academy Award night, winning five rather undeserved Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Score, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing. Producer-showman Michael Todd, a […]
MGM’s plush and lavish 1951 Technicolor biblical epic blockbuster film Quo Vadis? stars Robert Taylor and Deborah Kerr, as the crazed Emperor Nero (Peter Ustinov) fiddles while Rome burns, chariots race, armies march and lions […]
Ah, ha, Jim lad! The inimitable, or very imitable, Robert Newton is an absolute knockout in the 1950 adventure film Treasure Island as the best-ever eccentric pirate captain Long John Silver. Go on, Talk Like […]
Hooray for Margaret Rutherford’s second, exceedingly satisfying big-screen mystery entertainment as Dame Agatha Christie’s sleuth Miss Marple, the 1963 comedy crime thriller Murder at the Gallop. Old Lady Crime snoops to conquer when the rich […]
Director David Lean’s truly great, double Oscar-winning 1946 version of the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations is still the best version on film. It is even perhaps the best Dickens movie ever. The famous story centres on the […]