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Posts Tagged "French Revolution"
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Les mariés de l’an deux [Sink or Swim] [The Scoundrel] *** (1971, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marlène Jobert, Laura Antonelli) – Classic Movie Review 11,561
Director Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s 1971 comedy adventure film Les mariés de l’an deux provides unusual, intriguing costume capers starting in America’s Deep South where it is revealed that soon-to-be-wed French immigrant Nicholas Philibert (Jean-Paul Belmondo) has […]
La Marseillaise **** (1938, Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Louis Jouvet) – Classic Movie Review 8989
Director Jean Renoir’s 1938 historical drama La Marseillaise is his epic account of the French Revolution, which focuses on human interactions instead of on political events. Financed by trade unions and performed by mostly non-professional […]
Désirée ** (1954, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon, Michael Rennie, Cameron Mitchell, Elizabeth Sellars) – Classic Movie Review 7144
Director Henry Koster’s 1954 Désirée is an undesirable, wan, pointlessly fictionalised version of the Napoleon story, with a miscast Marlon Brando looking forlorn and unhappy as young Napoleon Bonaparte. There are not many sparks either from […]
Napoleon ***** (1927, Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële) – Classic Movie Review 7,016
Writer-director Abel Gance’s astonishing great French 1927 silent epic biopic of the young Napoleon Bonaparte (Albert Dieudonné), with a fine, powerful, commanding central performance and several outstanding sequences, is filmed with enormous style and energy for […]
A Tale of Two Cities **** (1958, Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker, Stephen Murray, Christopher Lee, Athene Seyler, Rosalie Crutchley, Ernest Clark, Paul Guers) – Classic Movie Review 6937
Director Ralph Thomas’s fine, ambitious 1958 British version of A Tale of Two Cities is the sixth film version of the Charles Dickens tale of heroics and romance during the French Revolution, carefully adapted by T […]
A Tale of Two Cities ***** (1935, Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Basil Rathbone) – Classic Movie Review 6936
Director Jack Conway’s 1935 historical romantic drama A Tale of Two Cities stars an ideally cast Ronald Colman, who is noble and stirring as alcoholic English lawyer Sydney Carton, who sacrifices himself to save his former […]
The Purple Mask *** (1955, Tony Curtis, Colleen Miller, Gene Barry, Dan O’Herlihy, Angela Lansbury) – Classic Movie Review 6351
Angela Lansbury described the Tony Curtis swashbuckler The Purple Mask as ‘the worst movie I ever made’. Director H Bruce Humberstone’s colourful 1955 costume-adventure swashbuckler The Purple Mask is set in 1803 France shortly after […]