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Director Sidney Lumet’s 1983 drama Daniel is written by E L Doctorow (Ragtime and Billy Bathgate, adapted from his own 1971 novel The Book of Daniel, and stars Timothy Hutton, Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse, Edward […]
Larry Parks shot to stardom with his highly successful impersonation of the cantor’s son entertainer in the 1946 musical biopic The Jolson Story. Director Alfred E Green’s 1946 American musical biography film The Jolson Story […]
Director Rodney Ackland’s 1943 Thursday’s Child is a pleasant, well-made if slight little suburban family drama that has plenty of charm and appeal, though British distributors of the day neglected it. Sally Ann Howes stars […]
Director Andrew Marton’s 1940 A Little Bit of Heaven is one of those Deanna Durbin-type musical prodigy pictures popular at the time, only this time it is the 14-year-old Gloria Jean who is airing the […]
Writer-director Jean Cocteau’s spirited, theatrical, steamy 1948 French film of his own 1938 stage play about a Paris family driven crazy by the overpowering love of the mother Yvonne aka ‘Sophie’ (Yvonne de Bray) for […]
Jack Wild and Mark Lester, the two young stars of Oliver!, reunite to much less effect for director Waris Hussein’s now very dated 1971 anti-establishment comedy romantic drama, with an original story and screenplay written […]
Director Lasse Hallstrom’s exceptional, appealing 1995 domestic comedy drama about the affairs of a rich family in the American South really is something to talk about tomorrow with your friends or in the workplace. Robert Duvall […]