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The Firefly *** (1937, Jeanette MacDonald, Allan Jones, Warren William) – Classic Movie Review 11,153
Now you don’t get many singing spies: ‘Jeanette MacDonald Is The Luminous Singing Spy!’… Director Robert Z Leonard’s 1937 black and white MGM musical The Firefly stars Jeanette MacDonald, who takes a rest from her […]
Waterloo **** (1970, Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles) – Classic Movie Review 10,367
Director Sergei Bondarchuk’s 1970 Italian-Russian co-produced historical epic Waterloo showcases fine acting from Rod Steiger as escaped Napoleon Bonaparte and Christopher Plummer as British general Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington. The two meet at Waterloo. […]
Désirée ** (1954, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon, Michael Rennie, Cameron Mitchell, Elizabeth Sellars) – Classic Movie Review 7144
Director Henry Koster’s 1954 Désirée is an undesirable, wan, pointlessly fictionalised version of the Napoleon story, with a miscast Marlon Brando looking forlorn and unhappy as young Napoleon Bonaparte. There are not many sparks either from […]
War and Peace *** (1956, Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Herbert Lom, John Mills, Vittorio Gassman, Oscar Homolka, Wilfrid Lawson) – Classic Movie Review 6470
Audrey Hepburn makes an incandescent Natasha Rostova and an oddly cast Henry Fonda an intelligent Pierre Bezukhov in director King Vidor’s epic 1956 film version of Leo Tolstoy’s novel about a Russian family’s adventures at […]
The Purple Mask *** (1955, Tony Curtis, Colleen Miller, Gene Barry, Dan O’Herlihy, Angela Lansbury) – Classic Movie Review 6351
Angela Lansbury described the Tony Curtis swashbuckler The Purple Mask as ‘the worst movie I ever made’. Director H Bruce Humberstone’s colourful 1955 costume-adventure swashbuckler The Purple Mask is set in 1803 France shortly after […]
Conquest [Marie Walewska] **** (1937, Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen, Alan Marshal, Henry Stephenson, Dame May Whitty) – Classic Movie Review 2921
Director Clarence Brown’s plush 1937 historical romantic drama stars Greta Garbo in a weepie love story about Countess Marie Walewska, the Polish mistress of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (Charles Boyer). She becomes Napoleon’s mistress at the urging of […]
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