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Producer-director George King’s luridly melodramatic 1940 British black and white B-movie thriller Crimes at the Dark House gleefully turns the classic 1859 Wilkie Collins mystery novel The Woman in White into another absurdly amusing, over-the-top […]
Producer-director George Schaefer’s 1988 made-for-TV comedy Laura Lansing Slept Here provides a tailor-made role for Katharine Hepburn, playing Laura Lansing, a character much like herself, an indomitable old novelist who, when told by her agent […]
Director Claude Autant-Lara’s 1954 French romantic drama Le Rouge et le Noir [The Red and the Black] is a good-looking, attractively acted adaptation of the once scandalous 1831 Stendhal novel, in which humble Julien Sorel […]
Director Ingmar Bergman’s 1958 Swedish drama film So Close to Life [Nära livet] [Brink of Life] is one of his least well known and least popular films, but it turns out to have much to […]
Writer-director Bert I Gordon’s 1976 low-budget exploitation quickie The Food of the Gods is a silly, gooey chiller, adapted from an H G Wells story, about gunge from the ground that creates monsters of insects […]
Eric Rohmer’s witty and affecting adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist’s famous novella Die Marquise von O… [The Marquise of O] is set at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. It focuses on the honourable German […]
The MGM studio advertised it as ‘There are no rules… there is no limit… IN THE LOVE-HUNGRY WORLD OF THESE YOUNG SOPHISTICATES!’ Money, partner swapping, drugs and restless youth: MGM thought that director Michael Anderson’s […]