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Laurence Olivier took the Oscars for both Best Picture and Best Actor for his intelligent, involving and marvellously cinematic 1948 film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragic play. And there were Oscars for Art Direction-Set Decoration […]
Producer-director William Wyler’s big 1958 epic Western stars Gregory Peck as wealthy retired New England sea captain James McKay, who arrives in the Old West on the range to marry his spoiled fiancée Patricia Terrill […]
For this 1954 movie set in a before-Christ era 18th-dynasty Egypt, a wan-seeming Edmund Purdom replaced Marlon Brando as Sinuhe, a poor orphan boy who becomes a brilliant physician. And, accompanied by his friend Horemheb […]
The conscientious 1953 biblical epic film The Robe stars Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature and Michael Rennie, and is notable for being the first film ever to be released in CinemaScope. There are five […]
Producer-director Stanley Donen’s 1960 release is a stagey but pleasing and enjoyable, old-style sub-Noel Coward drawing-room comedy of marital infidelity along the lines of Private Lives as Cary Grant’s marriage to Deborah Kerr is threatened by Jean Simmons […]
Director Anthony Asquith’s stirring 1945 wartime salute to the Royal Air Force concentrates on the personal relationships of a group of men stationed on a World War Two British bomber airfield. In the star department, there […]
The four-Oscar-winning writer-director Joseph L Mankiewicz films one of Broadway’s finest, all-time-great shows, based on the famous short stories by Damon Runyon. He turns it into a genially pleasing, attractively easy-going, if none too cinematic […]