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Director Michael Powell handles this 1961 British film The Queen’s Guards as a dull, flag-waving tale of two generations of The Queen’s Grenadier Guards, old Captain Fellowes and young John Fellowes (Raymond Massey and Daniel […]
Director Charles Jarrott’s 1971 Mary, Queen of Scots is worth a look for the heavyweight actresses Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson in their prime, if not quite at their peak, and for the various star […]
The Favourite (2018) is a most elegant, sophisticated and hugely entertaining dark comedy drama from director Yorgos Lanthimos. I was going to say it is a true original, but then it is very much like a […]
MGM’s well-crafted 1953 Technicolor historical biopic film Young Bess stars Jean Simmons as the young Queen Elizabeth I, Stewart Granger as her suitor, Charles Laughton as Henry VIII, and Deborah Kerr as Catherine Parr. Director […]
Director William K Howard’s spirited 1937 British romantic adventure Fire Over England brings together screen and real-life lovers Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh together for the first time. Clemence Dane and Sergei Nolbandov’s screenplay is […]
Writer-director William Sterling’s lovingly crafted 1972 movie is another attempt at an all-star human cast version of Lewis Carroll’s classic novel, and this time it is a semi-musical version, with a score by John Barry […]
‘ STRANGE ADVENTURE…in the secret wonder city of pagan forest maidens.’ Johnny Weissmuller stars again in RKO’s 1945 adventure as Tarzan, who this time looks after a tribe of women in a hidden Amazon valley threatened […]