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Writer-director Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s 1969 cult Spanish horror film The House That Screamed [La Residencia] stars Lilli Palmer as Señora Fourneau, the strict disciplinarian headmistress of a 19th-century French girls’ boarding school, where the students […]
Director John G Avildsen’s 1992 drama film The Power of One is based on the novel by Bryce Courtenay, and stars Stephen Dorff, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Morgan Freeman and John Gielgud. The Power of One is […]
Director Justin Hardy’s 1994 British family comedy drama film A Feast at Midnight is a pleasant and well-meaning but rather weak, none too amusing children’s comedy about a lonely 10-year-old boy called Magnus (Freddie Findlay) […]
Director Ida Lupino’s 1966 comedy The Trouble with Angels stars Hayley Mills and June Harding as Mary Clancy and Rachel Devery, young students and naughty schoolgirls let loose and running wild in a Pennsylvanian Catholic convent boarding […]
Director Norman Tokar’s 1967 The Happiest Millionaire is the last live-action film supervised personally as producer by Walt Disney (uncredited), though Bill Anderson is credited producer. It is a large-scale musical, with a modern-day Romeo […]
Writer-director Volker Schlöndorff’s powerful and relevant 1966 Young Törless [Der Junge Törless] is notable as this important German film-maker’s first feature. It is his forceful, assured, well-acted version of the classic Robert Musil parable novel […]
Director Daniel Petrie Jr’s engaging 1991 movie stars the 20-year-old cheeky-faced cherub Sean Astin as Billy Tepper, whose title gang of naughty but nice schoolboys do good when Luis Cali (Andrew Divoff)’s evil Colombian terrorists take […]