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Director Michael Powell, separated from his regular film-making partner Emeric Pressburger, went to Spain in 1959 to make the last of his ballet films, Honeymoon [Luna de Miel], a listless romance about an ex-ballerina Anna […]
Made in lurid Technicolor and wholly unsuitable widescreen, director Nicholas Ray’s 1955 Hot Blood is totally camp, kitsch, trashy and, quite honestly, just plain bad. But it is nevertheless quite a lot of fun to […]
Directors James W Horne and Charles [Charley] R Rogers’s 1936 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy The Bohemian Girl is another of their operetta send-ups, following The Devil’s Brother [Fra Diavolo] (1933). Laurel and Hardy […]
Can we have your attention, please, for ‘The year’s strangest, most absorbing drama!’, the 1945 Gainsborough melodrama film Madonna of the Seven Moons, starring Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger and Patricia Roc. Director Arthur Crabtree’s engagingly florid 1944 British movie […]
Director Joseph Losey’s 1958 movie The Gypsy and the Gentleman is a lusty, opulent-looking, lip-smacking British throwback to The Wicked Lady school of romantic period melodramas, though in this just pre-British New Wave era this […]
‘BIG beyond words!…Wondrous beyond belief!…Magnificent beyond compare!’ This brilliant RKO studio movie from 1939 is simply the best version of the famous Victor Hugo literary classic, lit up by Charles Laughton’s inspired portrayal of Quasimodo, […]
Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1947 wartime romantic musical adventure Golden Earrings is a fun folly, written on an off day by Abraham Polonsky, Frank Butler and Helen Deutsch, and based on the novel by Yolanda Foldes. […]