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Spencer Tracy stars as a New York doctor called Karl Decker who finds it isn’t love after all when he takes this troubled society woman Georgi Gragore (Hedy Lamarr) as his wife, in director W S […]
Director Anthony Pelissier’s 1953 British film Personal Affair stars Leo Genn as Mr Barlow, a married Latin-language teacher as a British school who is the object of the infatuated affections of one of his pupils, 17-year-old Barbara […]
In Fifties Somerset, England, Eva (Samatha Morton) is looking after her forgetful dad (Frank Finlay) and living with her crazy farmer lover Harry (Lee Ross), but loves her childhood sweetheart Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves). Director […]
L P Hartley’s class-conscious novel set in 1923 about a chauffeur, Steven Ledbetter (Robert Shaw), who befriends and falls for his posh, disturbed mistress Lady Franklin (Sarah Miles) may be a trifle thin and sedate as cinema. […]
Writer-producer-director Robert Rossen’s polished 1964 drama stars Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg and Peter Fonda, and is based on J R Salamanca’s novel of love, madness, creativity, jealousy, unrequited love and incestuous desire. Everybody seems to be battling – if […]
‘Somewhere between the innocent girl and the not so innocent mistress is the bizarre, sensuous story of Tristana’ Co-writer/ director Luis Buñuel’s 1970 masterwork stars a cucumber-cool Catherine Deneuve, who shines in one of best […]
Director William Wyler’s 1961 drama is a grittier re-filming of Lillian Hellman’s infamous play The Children’s Hour, first made also by Wyler in 1936 as These Three. Hellman is credited for the adaptation, but this time John […]