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Director Alan Clarke’s 1985 British vampire snooker musical film Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire is written by Trevor Preston, and stars Phil Daniels, Alun Armstrong and Bruce Payne. A 17-year-old snooker hustler Billy the Kid […]
First off, the 1957 stage show West Side Story is brilliant and timeless, the best of its kind. Second, the 1961 film of it, West Side Story, is also brilliant and timeless, the best of […]
Director Herbert Wilcox’s 1940 musical film No, No, Nanette is based on the 1919 stage play, and stars Anna Neagle, Richard Carlson, Victor Mature, Helen Broderick, Roland Young, Eve Arden and ZaSu Pitts. Anna Neagle […]
Director Gregory Ratoff’s 1939 black and white musical Rose of Washington Square stars Alice Faye, who grabs one of her best chances as Rose Sargent, a 1920s New York singer trying to perform a difficult […]
Director Tom Hooper’s belated movie version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s beloved iconic stage musical Cats (2019) is painless, apart from the restless hand held camera and the CGI, which are painful. The film doesn’t look […]
The great Sixties Broadway hippy stage rock musical Hair was filmed in 1979 with vibrant young stars John Savage and Treat Williams as New York hippies who revolt and burn their draft cards when faced […]
Gerard Butler makes a success of his surprise casting as the Phantom in Joel Schumacher’s opulent 2004 filming of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical version of the 1911 novel Le Fantöme de l’Opéra by Gaston Leroux. […]