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Jayne Mansfield stars as Midnight Franklin, a nightclub exotic singer-dancer trying to save her boyfriend, London gangland and club boss Johnny Solo (Leo Genn), from an extortion racket when he gets threats for protection at […]
Director Henry Cornelius’s 1955 British drama is a lacklustre, uninspired, disappointing film, especially considering the quality of Christopher Isherwood’s brilliant stories of an Englishman abroad in Weimar-era Thirties Berlin in his classic book Goodbye to […]
The then inspired young French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) director Jacques Demy’s 1961 debut is not only his first movie but arguably his best film. It is a delightful, still fresh romantic extravaganza. Anouk Aimée, in […]
Director Josef Von Sternberg’s 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama Morocco stars Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, and Adolphe Menjou. It is based on the novel Amy Jolly by Benno Vigny, though the on-screen credits state ‘From the play […]
Writer-director Blake Edwards’s bubbly and witty 1982 gender-bender musical remake of a 1933 German comedy, Viktor und Viktoria, is huge vivacious fun. It provides an ideal vehicle for his wife Julie Andrews as a struggling female soprano […]
Director Joseph von Sternberg’s 1930 beautifully melancholic classic The Blue Angel [Der blaue Engel] stars his protégé Marlene Dietrich as the alluring nightclub cabaret singer Lola-Lola Frohlich. She marries the fat, fussy but infatuated Professor […]
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