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Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1938 black and white historical film Marie Antoinette is a lavish, elaborate, years-in-the-making epic from the MGM studio, with Norma Shearer as the French queen Marie Antoinette, who becomes […]
Director George Sidney’s 1952 MGM rip-snorting Technicolor adventure tale Scaramouche is based on the 1921 novel by Rafael Sabatini and has main star Stewart Granger swashing a florid buckle as André-Louis Moreau, who needs to wreak […]
Those cool and distinguished players Stéphane Audran and Michel Piccoli star in writer-director Claude Chabrol’s 1973 Hitchcockian crime thriller Red Wedding [Les noces rouges] as Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury, who are having an affair […]
Director Richard Quine’s vibrant if messy and cheap-looking 1954 Technicolor musical So This Is Paris has a trio of Yankee sailors, Joe, Al and Davy (Tony Curtis, Gene Nelson and Paul Gilbert), on furlough chasing […]
Director Howard Hawks’s impeccably made 1936 war drama The Road to Glory, based on the novel by Roland Dorgeles, follows a division of the French army as they struggle through the horrors of World War […]
Peter Sellers directs himself in the 1961 British comedy Mr Topaze, starring in an old role previously played by John Barrymore in Topaze back in 1933, as an upright French school teacher fired when he […]
Co-writer/ director Claire Denis’s 1996 Nenette and Boni [Nénette et Boni] is a difficult, edgy, sometimes un-realised picture, with some good scenes and dialogue as well as a couple of persuasive, even attractive, star performances […]