Director Robert Stevenson’s 1936 Gainsborough Pictures’ historical biopic Tudor Rose is the first film to tell the tragic tale of Lady Jane Grey, England’s queen for nine days in 1553 before she was executed by beheading for […]
Director: Ron Howard’s 2018 Solo: A Star Wars Story is okay as a pleasant time-passer and has some enjoyable sequences and entertaining characters. But it is a bit sticky and stodgy in places, and it […]
Director Michael Curtiz’s 1943 movie This Is the Army provides military musical mayhem aplenty in this extravagant Technicolor wartime revue by Irving Berlin which, at the time of its release during World War Two, made […]
The 1939 British comedy film Cheer Boys Cheer is Ealing Studios’ last release before WW2, with its delightful players Nova Pilbeam, Edmund Gwenn, Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriott providing considerable cheer. Director Walter Forde’s 1939 […]
Director Michael Relph draws the bitter-sweet short straw of making Ealing Studios’ last comedy, the 1957 Davy, which is engaging enough but rather a sad affair. Harry Secombe stars as a young music-hall singing star […]
Director Charles Frend’s nicely done but mild 1947 Ealing Studios romantic drama, taken from Sheila Kaye-Smith’s novel Joanna Godden, is set in England in the Edwardian period. It is Romney Marsh, between Kent and Sussex, in 1905. […]
David Lean’s 1949 film The Passionate Friends is an underrated Brief Encounter-style romantic drama about a woman (Ann Todd) caught between two men – her husband (Claude Rains) and her first love (Trevor Howard). Director […]
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