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Spencer Tracy is superb as the American chief judge, Dan Haywood, who sits in judgment over a 1948 war crimes trial in Nuremberg, Germany, in producer-director Stanley Kramer’s powerful and moving double Oscar-winning 1961 drama […]
Director George Stevens’s then daring 1951 film of Theodore Dreiser’s 1925 novel An American Tragedy was once greatly acclaimed and admired but now it has faded and is unfairly overlooked. The overfree screenplay is based on […]
‘Tennessee Williams shocks you again as he transports you to a STRANGE, NEW BOLD WORLD!’ Tennessee Williams’s famous one-act play gets a glossy, starry stage-to-screen transfer in director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1959 movie. The heat […]
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 Fred Zinnemann’s remarkable 1948 drama stars Montgomery Clift as Ralph ‘Steve’ Stevenson, a kind-hearted American army engineer who looks after a lost nine-year-old Czech boy called Karel (Ivan Jandl) in post-war Berlin. The boy was […]
Director John Huston’s and playwright/screenwriter Arthur Miller’s 1961 modern-day Western is brilliantly strange and striking. It focuses on the lives of a quartet of loveable losers (‘the misfits’), who embark on a chase for symbolic horses against […]
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1953 film noir-style thriller film I Confess, set and filmed on location in moody Quebec City, is a worthy and watchable but glum experience. There is too much internal introspection for an exciting […]