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Constance Bennett and Gracie Fields form an odd but likeable double act as an American woman and her English friend who join forces to hide Allied fliers from the Nazis in occupied Paris in World […]
Greta Garbo is alluring as the Dutch-born German spy in her biggest hit film Mata Hari (1931). She says: ‘Women like me are trained to forget. We mustn’t admit a heart. I never look ahead. […]
Director Frank Borzage’s strong, sensitive and significant 1940 drama finds the MGM studio in full patriotic mode, doing its bit for the free world by trying to stir up the wartime American public against the […]
Co-writer/director Billy Wilder’s excellent 1957 movie version of Agatha Christie’s ingenious if a shade creaky London-set courtroom thriller is witty, suspenseful and hugely entertaining. Christie’s 1952 international stage success is based on her 1925 short story Traitor’s […]
Director Billy Wilder delivers a typically darkly comic adaptation of Donald Bevan’s and Edmund Trzcinski’s Broadway stage play about American airmen’s life in a POW camp in Germany in 1944 towards the end of World […]
Luchino Visconti’s rich and ambitious 1969 historical drama film The Damned [La caduta degli dei] stars Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin and Helmut Berger in his breakthrough role. Director Luchino Visconti’s rich and ambitious 1969 saga of […]
Director Joseph von Sternberg’s 1930 beautifully melancholic classic The Blue Angel [Der blaue Engel] stars his protégé Marlene Dietrich as the alluring nightclub cabaret singer Lola-Lola Frohlich. She marries the fat, fussy but infatuated Professor […]