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‘HE’S NOT HIMSELF!… Even his bride thinks he’s two other fellows…!’ Director Arthur Hopkins’s 1933 comedy-drama film His Double Life stars Roland Young and Lillian Gish, along with Montagu Love and Lumsden Hare. Arnold Bennett’s […]
‘Strange Emotions Stir the Pulse… when LOVE and PASSION clash in the world’s loneliest outpost!’ David Charleston (Michael Redgrave): ‘For all humanity I make one wish: let the people die off fast.’ Director Roy Boulting’s […]
A blind, sword-bearing masseur takes on the gangs that threaten a 19th century Japanese village in writer-director-star Takeshi Kitano’s gory, feisty, impressive 2003 Japanese movie Zatôichi – one of this fine director’s best. Takeshi Kitano […]
The 1956 Technicolor drama The Rainmaker provides an outstanding showcase for Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn in this well-crafted film of N Richard Nash’s Broadway play. Earl Holliman won the 1957 Golden Globe for Best […]
Director Martin Ritt’s 1972 comedy drama is funny, heartwarming and hugely likeable, with a good script lifted high by ingratiating performances from the supremely expert and ideally paired comedians Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett as […]
Director Jack Clayton’s 1987 best of British drama provides lovely showcase for impeccable, tour-de-force acting from Maggie Smith as Judith Hearne. Smith won the 1989 BAFTA Film Award for Best Actress. Judith Hearne is the lonely, penniless […]
Director Terence Young’s 1959 British drama Serious Charge is based on a play by Philip King and really presents a couple of serious charges. Anthony Quayle stars as Howard Phillips, a vicar newly arrived in the […]