After a famous 1954 British TV version with Peter Cushing, director Michael Anderson’s 1956 British feature is the first film of George Orwell’s prophetic novel about Big Brother taking over Europe, and the rebellion and […]
Nineteen Eighty-Four is a satisfactory, in many ways satisfying remake of George Orwell’s famous prophetic, futuristic dystopian novel, filmed in the UK to celebrate the year it depicts. It was released in the UK on […]
Director Mark Robson’s 1962 drama is based on the novel by Stanley Wolpert and handsomely made in India. It offers a fictionalised account of Hindu militant activist Nathuram Godse (Horst Buchholz)’s plan to kill Mahatma […]
Real-life tragedy occurred during the production of the ambitious big-budget 1979 European spy action thriller film Avalanche Express, when star Robert Shaw and director Mark Robson both died of heart attacks. Real-life tragedy occurred during […]
Director Joshua Logan’s romantic 1961 film is Hollywood’s second version of Marcel Pagnol’s Marius trilogy (first made in America before as Port of Seven Seas in 1938) arriving on screen via Logan’s and S N Behrman’s […]
Derek Jarman’s haunting 1985 experimental film is his interpretation of 14 William Shakespeare sonnets, eloquently read by Judi Dench, as the images show a young man seeking the man of his heart’s desire. Jarman chooses […]
Jean Simmons stars on her most outrageously malicious form as Diane Tremayne, the dangerously psychopathic young woman with the sensuous angel face, in the ferocious 1953 film noir melodrama 1953 Angel Face. Angel Face is […]
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