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The 1961 Euro romance film Madame Sans-Gêne [Madame] is an attractive but sluggish remake of a famous 1893 hit play, and stars Sophia Loren as a Paris laundress who follows Napoleon’s army to the battlefront […]
Irwin Allen’s 1957 The Story of Mankind is a bizarre débâcle that has earned a place in the 1978 book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time. Director/ co–producer Irwin Allen’s 1957 American Technicolor fantasy […]
‘Her sword… Her lips… Her heart… Brought all of France to her feet!’ Well that’s a tough act to live up to! Writer-director Maurice Geraghty’s 1951 film The Sword of Monte Cristo is a sub-standard […]
Director Sergei Bondarchuk’s 1970 Italian-Russian co-produced historical epic Waterloo showcases fine acting from Rod Steiger as escaped Napoleon Bonaparte and Christopher Plummer as British general Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington. The two meet at Waterloo. […]
Director Phil Karlson’s 1952 Columbia Pictures romantic adventure The Brigand is a cheap and fairly cheerful reworking of Alexandre Dumas’s story Brigand: A Romance of the Reign of Don Carlos, with Anthony Dexter in both […]
Director Alfred L Werker’s extravagantly produced 1934 saga tells of the rise of the Jewish banking family in 19th-century France and the Rothschild financial empire, inherited by his five sons, which helps to finance the war […]
The 1934 adventure movie The Count of Monte Cristo is a thrilling version of the Alexandre Dumas 1844 novel, with Robert Donat in the star role. Screen-writer Philip Dunne said he never read it and […]