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Director Cyril Frankel’s 1961 On the Fiddle [Operation Snafu] is an enjoyably fun and fairly smart British black and white World War Two wartime farce, made out of its time at the start of the Sixties. […]
Director Delmer Daves’s well-meaning, acceptable 1948 drama To the Victor tells a romantic drama tale of gloom and doom, and stars Dennis Morgan, Viveca Lindfors, Bruce Bennett, Victor Francen and Dorothy Malone. Morgan stars as […]
Director Irving Pichel’s 1942 The Pied Piper stars Monty Woolley, who plays Mr John Sidney Howard, a child-hating old Englishman on a fishing holiday in eastern France in World War Two when the Germans attack. It […]
French New Wave film director Agnes Varda and young idealist photographer/ mural artist JR journey in a van through rural France, taking pictures and creating art, while forming a devoted unlikely if friendship. The van […]
Director King Vidor’s commanding World War One epic 1925 drama The Big Parade, full of startling battle images bringing the conflict to vivid life, is one of the great highspots of silent cinema. The film takes […]
Director Raoul Walsh’s 1953 romantic historical action adventure drama Sea Devils stars Rock Hudson as Gilliatt, the swashbuckling fisherman cum smuggler who falls for beautiful English spy Drucette (Yvonne De Carlo) and sets her on […]
Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1961 The Greengage Summer [Loss of Innocence] is an engagingly old-fashioned romantic rites-of-passage tale by Rumer (Black Narcissus) Godden about an English teenage girl called Joss Grey (Susannah York) who falls in […]