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Director Otto Preminger’s lush 1945 black and white costume drama A Royal Scandal [Czarina], with more than a few splashes of humour, stars Tallulah Bankhead as 18th century Russian queen Catherine the Great who shows […]
The MGM studio’s wonderfully plush and luscious remake of the Edward Knoblock stage yarn is World War Two wartime escapism gone mad, with notable casting in Ronald Colman as the beggar king Hafiz and Jamilla […]
Director Robert Stevenson’s 1936 Gainsborough Pictures’ historical biopic Tudor Rose is the first film to tell the tragic tale of Lady Jane Grey, England’s queen for nine days in 1553 before she was executed by beheading for […]
Paramount Pictures’ stupendous 1936 romantic comedy mystery movie The Princess Comes Across again stars the hit pair of Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray on their best form. Director William K Howard’s stupendous 1936 Paramount Pictures’ […]
Director Curtis Bernhardt’s 1954 MGM movie Beau Brummell is a visually captivating and engaging enough remake of the 1924 silent in which John Barrymore cemented his silent superstar status as Beau Brummell. Stewart Granger and […]
Director Sidney Franklin’s steamy 1929 MGM silent drama stars Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone and Nils Asther. Garbo is on alluring form, dressed by Adrian and photographed by William H Daniels. It is written by Hanns Kräly, Ruth Cummings, Willis Goldbeck and […]
Beautifully shot (in black and white by Anchise Brizzi), set and costumed (by Bruno Nofri), director Carmine Gallone’s 1946 film version of the Giuseppe Verdi opera favourite is extra fine. Tito Gobbi (1913-84) is extraordinary […]
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