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Charles Dickens’s tale of the young 19th-century English schoolmaster Nicholas Nickleby, who ends up with no source of income after his father dies and leaves his family destitute, is surprisingly flatly retold in director Alberto Cavalcanti’s […]
Producer-director Ernst Lubitsch’s last completed film is the 1946 sophisticated romantic comedy Cluny Brown, set in pre-World War Two England, getting its laughs out of satirising the smugness of British high society. Jennifer Jones stars as […]
In the first of his films to be released in colour, co-writer/director/star Jacques Tati is working confidently, imaginatively, inventively and successfully at around the peak of his comic ingenuity and cleverness. Honoured by Hollywood with […]
Producer-director Rouben Mamoulian’s rousing 1932 pre-Code vintage Hollywood musical comedy Love Me Tonight is one of the genre’s highspots. With much of the story told in sung dialogue, it has a reputation as the ultimate […]
Director Don Taylor’s 1978 sequel to the 1976 hit The Omen is set seven years later. Wealthy Chicago dweller Richard Thorn (William Holden) starts to suspects that his young nephew and foster son Damien (Jonathan […]