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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 […]
Take almost the entire MGM comedy team (Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, and The Three Stooges), throw them into an all-star film in which virtually every comedy director on the lot […]
Directors Stuart Walker and Mitchell Leisen’s 1933 The Eagle and the Hawk is a modest but decent World War One war action melodrama, starring Fredric March as Jerry Young, a Royal Air Force squadron flier […]
Boris Karloff stars as Dr Fu Manchu. He recalled: ‘Some scenes were written in beautiful Oxford English, others were written in God knows what!’ Playing his daughter Fah Lo See, Myrna Loy complained: ‘I can’t […]
Whispering Smith (1948) is notable as Alan Ladd’s first Western and first colour film, moving him on from the film noir movies such as This Gun for Hire (1942), The Glass Key (1942) and The Blue Dahlia (1946) and on to Shane (1953). Ladd stars in […]
Director Andrew Marton’s 1954 MGM movie is a colourful South American romantic adventure yarn with Stewart Granger and Paul Douglas as emerald miners and Grace Kelly as a coffee plantation owner, who runs it with […]
Director David Burton’s 1933 American pre-Code drama film Brief Moment stars Carole Lombard and Gene Raymond, and is based on the play by S N Behrman. The Depression Era story has a heavily laid-on moral about using your gifts and abilities, whether […]