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Directors Sam Taylor and Bert Glazer’s 1944 comedy Nothing but Trouble is a rickety, late-period, slightly below-par outing from Laurel and Hardy – with an unusually daft plot about bad guy Prince Saul (Philip Merivale)’s […]
Bohemian Rhapsody proved to be the big winner of Oscar night 2019, taking home four awards, but then Black Panther, Roma and Green Book all took home three Oscars. Black Panther won for Best Achievement […]
Ivor Novello’s last operetta King’s Rhapsody (1950) concerns an exiled Ruritarian king, Richard of Laurentia (a sadly on-the-skids Errol Flynn), forsaking true love with commoner Marta Karillos (Anna Neagle, too old for this at the […]
Director Vincent Sherman’s 1948 romantic action adventure Adventures of Don Juan, the Warner Bros studio’s final super-production for its waning star Errol Flynn, is a thrilling, splendidly good-humoured spectacular. Flynn is on top form as […]
‘The Screen Explodes With Wondrous Spectacle Bigger Than Anything You Have Ever Seen!! ‘ Director Riccardo Freda’s entertaining 1960 Italian-French adventure-fantasy film The Giants of Thessaly [I giganti della Tessaglia (Gli Argonauti)] is loosely based on the Greek […]
Director Phil Karlson’s 1952 Columbia Pictures romantic adventure The Brigand is a cheap and fairly cheerful reworking of Alexandre Dumas’s story Brigand: A Romance of the Reign of Don Carlos, with Anthony Dexter in both […]
Chris Pine of Los Angeles, California, USA, channels his inner Scot as the 14th Century Scottish Outlaw/ King Robert the Bruce, who makes a reasonable claim to the Scottish throne and then desperately tries to […]