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For his 1972 third Trilogy of Life movie, The Canterbury Tales [I Racconti di Canterbury], Italian writer-director Pier Paolo Pasolini freely tackles the literary masterpiece of Geoffrey Chaucer and makes the revered English material his […]
Vincent Price is back in Witchfinder General mode in 1970’s Cry of the Banshee, as a wicked magistrate hunting out witches. Vincent Price is back in the Witchfinder General-mode horror business in 1970’s Cry of […]
The 1962 remake of MGM’s 1935 classic film Mutiny on the Bounty is a lumbering adventure epic version of the famous story. It was nominated for seven Oscars but there were no wins. Director Lewis […]
Director Otto Preminger’s ambitious 1960 historical epic film Exodus about the birth of the state of Israel just never seems to end at 217 minutes. Comedian Mort Sahl, attending a preview, stood up and shouted: […]
Vincent Price gleefully seizes his opportunity in his ideal role as crazed, vengeful Dr Anton Phibes, in the blood-lusty 1971 black comedy horror movie The Abominable Dr Phibes. Director Robert Fuest’s blood-lusty 1971 black comedy […]
Director John Boulting and producer Roy Boulting’s 1957 movie Lucky Jim is a Fifties British comedy classic, based on the famed novel by Kingsley Amis – one of his very best. Ian Carmichael enjoys a […]
Consider yourself well in! Director Carol Reed was the son of actor-producer Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his mistress, May Pinney Reed. He embarked on an acting career while still in his late teens, followed […]