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Noël Coward was bitter: ‘This vulgar orgy of tenth-rate endeavour.’ Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1940 musical film Bitter Sweet stars Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, who are sweet in this welcome remake of […]
Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1951 American black-and-white World War Two drama The Frogmen stars Richard Widmark as martinet US Navy lieutenant commander John Lawrence, who leads the WW2 wartime Underwater Demolition Team divers of the title, and wins the […]
‘SWASHBUCKLING ADVENTURE! FLASHING SWORDS AND RAGING SEAS… as soldiers of fortune fight for their lives!’ Writer-director Robert Stevenson’s 1960 British-made adventure Kidnapped is the Walt Disney version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale. It offers a […]
Director Richard Fleischer’s handsome, action-filled 1916 Mexican revolutionary adventure film Bandido! (1956 ) stars Robert Mitchum as arms trader Wilson, who supplies weapons to rebel colonel José Escobar (Roland) and outsmarts rival gunrunner Kennedy (Zachary Scott). […]
‘A WOMAN OF MAGIC… LOVED BY ALL MEN… EXCEPT THE ONLY MAN IN THE WORLD SHE WANTED.’ Director Robert Z Leonard’s 1934 romantic drama Outcast Lady [A Woman of the World] stars Constance Bennett, Herbert […]
Marlon Brando stars in the awkward 1956 comedy drama film The Teahouse of the August Moon about US troops confronting Oriental culture in Okinawa. Brando shows a rare comic touch, but it is very uncomfortable […]
Directors Charles Sturridge and Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s monumental and magnificent 1981 Brideshead Revisited is Granada Television’s sumptuous adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel about England’s decadent and declining upper-class between the world wars, made in 11 episodes. […]