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James Stewart and Henry Fonda star as ageing wandering cowboys who inherit a whorehouse – the Cheyenne Social Club of the title – run by its feisty madame, Jenny (Shirley Jones). Prim and proper John […]
Hammer Films’ 1963 thriller Paranoiac is loosely based on Josephine Tey’s brilliant novel Brat Farrar, in which a charming young man long believed dead returns to his family estate to claim his inheritance. Director Freddie […]
Director John Cromwell’s 1934 romantic drama Of Human Bondage stars the 26-year-old Bette Davis, who after three years in the business finally shoots to stardom as the cold and unfeeling trampy cockney waitress Mildred Rogers, who […]
Producer-director Mario Zampi’s delightful 1951 British comedy is a minor classic, enshrining one of Alastair Sim’s most treasurable performances as a henpecked thriller writer and providing eagerly grabbed showcases for showy turns by some of […]
William Wyler’s elegant 1949 film of Henry James’s 1880 novel Washington Square, set in 19th century New York, is supremely satisfying. The Heiress got great reviews and won four Oscars, with Olivia de Havilland taking […]
Director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville make rather heavy weather of their struggle with their 1929 movie adaptation of Sean O’Casey’s doomy successful classic play about a hard-pressed family living in the slums of Dublin […]
Director Peter Godfrey’s 1948 film version of Wilkie Collins’s famous classic Gothic novel The Woman in White is a rich and thoroughly enjoyable entertainment. At its centre, Sydney Greenstreet gives an enormously compelling, masterly villainous […]