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Director King Vidor’s 1952 all-action romantic drama is brilliantly kitsch and preposterous, just bursting with enjoyably over-heated Fifties-style intrigue, sex and violence. It is an unkind label, but it is a trash classic. Jennifer Jones stars […]
Danish co-writer/ producer/ director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s creepy and compelling first sound film from 1932 tells the haunting tale of a callow, supernatural-obsessed drifter called Allan Gray (Julian West), who arrives by night at a lonely secluded […]
This 1946 in-name-only sequel film sees Gale Sondergaard re-creating her popular role from 1944’s The Spider Woman. But this horror thriller follow-up has no relation to the original, with Sondergaard playing a completely different character. […]
In a majestic stroke of casting, Dame Judi Dench and Billy Connolly form a brilliant double act as Queen Victoria and John Brown, her loyal Scottish Highland gillie, summoned down from Balmoral to walk the […]
Producer Samuel Goldwyn and director William Wyler’s 1939 vintage movie version of Emily Brontë’s perennially enchanting classic yarn is splendidly romantic, atmospheric and rousing. It stars the lustrous Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon in the […]
‘From the Depths of the Earth, He Will Rise.’ Boris Karloff returns in triumph to his home country for the great eerie fun 1933 British black and white horror movie The Ghoul. ‘An Ancient Curse […]
Co-writer/director Jean Renoir’s famous great 1939 French world cinema classic is a poignant, penetrating social comedy set in a grand chateau in the country in France at the onset of World War Two. Guests arrive […]