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Posts Tagged "Michael Powell"
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The Phantom Light *** (1935, Binnie Hale, Gordon Harker, Ian Hunter, Donald Calthrop, Milton Rosmer, Herbert Lomas) – Classic Movie Review 7957
In his minor 1935 early effort The Phantom Light, director Michael Powell injects a strong, haunting atmosphere into a jovial suspense comedy-thriller yarn set around a supposedly haunted Welsh lighthouse, whose keeper has earlier been […]
The Tales of Hoffmann ***** (1951, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Robert Rounseville, Ludmilla Tchérina, Ann Ayars) – Classic Movie Review 1761
Writer/producer/director team Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger set about in 1951 to try to repeat the success of their all-time great dance film The Red Shoes (1948) and cast Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Leonide Massine, Ludmilla Tcherina […]
His Lordship *** (1932, dir Michael Powell) – Classic Movie Review 1258
Director Michael Powell’s eighth film, made in 1932 when he was an unknown director, is a musical comedy with a surprisingly complex plot about Bert Gibbs (Jerry Verno), a cheery Cockney plumber who is also […]
Ill Met By Moonlight [Night Ambush] **** (1957, Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley) – Classic Movie Review 776
Michael Powell’s 1957 film Ill Met By Moonlight [Night Ambush] with his long-term writing-producing-directing partner Emeric Pressburger is a stirring, old-style war adventure, telling a rattling good yarn, set in Crete in 1944. In the […]
The 49th Parallel [Invaders] **** (1941, Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Raymond Massey, Eric Portman, Anton Walbrook, Richard George) – Classic Film Review 635
A German submarine appears from the ocean deeps in the Gulf of St Lawrence, its leader Lieutenant Hirth (Eric Portman) and his six men arrive on land to find supplies. But two RAF bombs sink the […]
Contraband [Blackout] ***** (1940, Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson) – Classic Movie Review 620
Director Michael Powell and co-screenwriter Emeric Pressburger’s fast-moving, scintillating 1940 World War Two spy thriller Contraband [Blackout] reunites them with the brilliant screen team of Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson, the stars of their previous […]
The Spy in Black [U-Boat 29] ***** (1939, Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie, Helen Haye, Sebastian Shaw, Marius Goring, Cyril Raymond, Mary Morris, June Duprez) – Classic Film Review 619
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were first brought together by producer Alexander Korda to make the vivacious 1939 World War One spy thriller The Spy in Black starring Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson. British film-makers […]