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Producer Alexander Korda and director Julien Duvivier’s 1948 British remake of the 1935 Greta Garbo Hollywood success based on Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel Anna Karenina is appealing enough but not quite another triumph. Unfortunately, the famous […]
Producer David O Selznick and director Clarence Brown work over Leo Tolstoy’s great 1877 novel as a 1935 big studio movie vehicle for the great Greta Garbo as Anna Karenina, the young wife of the […]
In the 1966 fourth episode of the series, The Great St Trinian’s Train Robbery, the school for scandal St Trinian’s is providing the cover for great train robbers. George Cole appears one last time as Flash Harry, […]
Packed with passion and atmosphere, writer-director Jean Renoir’s 1938 modernised French film version of the antique 1890 Emile Zola novel La Bête Humaine is both one of the great train movies and one of the great […]
The Viennese immigrant Billy Wilder finally fulfils his ambition to direct his first American movie in 1942 in this highly enjoyable, bubbly vintage comedy, based on the play Connie Goes Home by Edward Childs Carpenter. Ginger Rogers gives […]
Writer-director Thomas McCarthy’s 2003 film is a gorgeously sweet and moving movie about a 4feet 6inch guy called Finbar ‘Fin’ McBride (Peter Dinklage) who has a deep love of railways. Fin has achondroplastic dwarfism, feels ostracised […]
Co-writer/director François Truffaut puts his alter ego film-self Antoine Doinel in the spotlight again in 1979 for the fifth and final time, as Jean-Pierre Léaud re-creates his most famous role in this amiable sequel movie. […]