The amusing 2012 British comedy-drama film Quartet stars Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Gwyneth Jones, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly, and Pauline Collins. Maggie Smith has a field day as eternal diva Jean, the former wife of […]
Don Ameche stars as bitter, grieving Iowa shopkeeper Lew Marsh, in the attractive 1943 American home front WW2 drama film Happy Land. Director Irving Pichel’s attractive 1943 American drama film Happy Land stars Don Ameche, […]
The 1934 British thriller film Bella Donna is based on Robert Hichens’s 1909 novel, and stars Conrad Veidt, Mary Ellis and Cedric Hardwicke. Happily, this long-missing movie was found again in the 1990s in a […]
Robert Young recalled: ‘Claudia (1942) did sensational business and Fox requested a sequel. Dorothy McGuire said she’d never do a sequel, but she was under contract to David Selznick and Claudia and David duly appeared […]
Robert Young recalled: ‘Dorothy McGuire had done the play Claudia on Broadway and the 1943 film version was mostly a photographed play. Ina Claire was wonderful as her mother. It did sensational business.’ Director Edmund […]
Its star Robert Young said the 1945 romantic fantasy film The Enchanted Cottage is ‘the best love story that’s ever been written. It was one of those films I hated to see end. It was such […]
Tom Cullen and Chris New star in Andrew Haigh’s impressive 2011 British LGBT romantic drama film Weekend, as two men who enjoy a meaningful brief encounter just before one of them plans to leave the […]