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Director Edward H Griffith’s rarely revived 1937 Columbia Pictures black and white musical romance I’ll Take Romance is worth a little look, mainly for its effective and tuneful star turn by Grace Moore. As Elsa Terry, […]
Director Tay Garnett’s fine 1940 black and white adventure comedy knockabout entertainment Seven Sinners expertly mixes romance and brawls, though the scintillating cast is the main reason to watch. Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne show […]
Director Mick Jackson’s hokey and unconvincing but highly popular 1992 romantic thriller The Bodyguard stars Kevin Costner as former US Secret Service agent Frank Farmer, who is hired by her manager as the bodyguard for pop […]
MGM’s 1937 vehicle for Joan Crawford, The Bride Wore Red, is a well-crafted, very jolly escapist romantic comedy film, made by Hollywood’s one-time only woman director, Dorothy Arzner. Based on the Ferenc Molnar play The […]
The often impressive and moving 1963 British drama film I Could Go on Singing memorably pairs Dirk Bogarde with Judy Garland in her last film before her tragic death from an accidental barbiturate overdose in […]
‘She took another woman’s place on her wedding night..!’ Well, that does sound interesting, doesn’t it? Director William A Wellman 1932 pre-Code American drama is adapted from the novel The Mud Lark by Arthur Stringer, with a screenplay by Robert Lord, and stars Barbara […]
Co-writer/ director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s beautifully acted and exquisitely crafted 1947 French policier thriller Quai des Orfrèvres is outstanding even in a genre the French regularly do so well. In Paris’s equivalent to Scotland Yard, the 36, […]