MGM’s life of Johann Strauss Jr – the splendid 1938 musical biopic film The Great Waltz – gets the lavish production and high-flying European stars. ‘Your beating heart, your pounding pulse will tell you it’s […]
‘YOU WILL BE SHOCKED by these Clever Coin Chasers.’ Director William Beaudine’s 1932 Three Wise Girls stars Jean Harlow as country bumpkin Cassie, who heads for the big city of New York and takes a […]
‘Laugh. Cry. Share the pants.’ Four 17-year-old best girlfriends buy a pair of jeans and agree to share the pants but not wash out the magic, in director Ken Kwapis’s 2005 chick flick tale of […]
Italians try to survive as the Americans liberate a small town in Tuscany from the Germans in August 1944, in the moving 1981 Italian wartime drama film The Night of San Lorenzo from Paolo Taviani […]
‘Klopstokia… a far away country – Chief Exports… Goats and Nuts – Chief Imports… Goats and Nuts – Chief Inhabitants… Goats and Nuts.’ Director Edward F Cline’s 1932 Million Dollar Legs stars the irrepressible and […]
The delightful 1990 French sophisticated comedy of manners and political satire Milou in May [Milou en Mai] [May Fools] finds director Louis Malle in mellow Chekovian mood as he delivers a gently funny, poignant country […]
Roy Marsden’s portrayal of Adam Dalgliesh in Anglia Television’s P D James detective series spans 15 years from Death of an Expert Witness (1983) to A Certain Justice (1998). The series began as adaptations in […]