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Remorques [Stormy Waters] (1941): ‘A tempestuous love story in the great French style.’ Director Jean Grémillon’s 1941 black and white French romantic drama Remorques [Stormy Waters] is a telling saga of amour-fou, centring on a […]
‘Exquisite music, sparkling romance for the King and Queen of song!’ Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1938 MGM musical Sweethearts is based on the operetta by Victor Herbert, and stars Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson […]
Director Don Sharp’s controversial 1975 British topical action thriller Hennessy stars Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, Richard Johnson, Trevor Howard, Eric Porter and Peter Egan. British soldiers kill Irish explosives man Niall Hennessy (Steiger)’s wife and […]
Writer-director Trevor Nunn’s 1975 drama Hedda is a moderate, rather heavy-going, and uncinematic but beautifully acted film version of Jackson’s Royal Shakespeare Company stage performance as Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. Nunn adapts it from the […]
Co-writer/ director Anthony Friedman’s 1970 British drama Bartleby offers a rare opportunity to see Paul Scofield on film as The Accountant, the sympathetic boss of a young accounting clerk called Bartleby (John McEnery) who rebels against […]
Director Alex Segal’s 1965 Hollywood biopic Harlow stars Carol Lynley and is a fast and fairly feisty biopic of the platinum blonde bombshell star Jean Harlow, filmed simultaneously with the much ritzier Carroll Baker-Angela Lansbury […]
Director Gordon Douglas’s 1965 Thirties Hollywood biopic Harlow stars Carroll Baker, who is lively if hollow as the platinum blonde bombshell star Jean Harlow, in the Paramount Pictures studio’s plush though not nearly sensational enough […]