Gregory Peck stands steady in a tense and taciturn star turn as the fictional early 19th century British Navy hero Captain Horatio Hornblower at the helm of producer-director Raoul Walsh’s 1951 ocean-going story based on C […]
Gary Cooper is ideally cast as Robert Jordan, Ernest Hemingway’s American soldier fighting in Spain in the 1930s, in producer-director Sam Wood’s lavish 1943 Hollywood golden years epic of the Spanish Civil War. However, Ingrid […]
Director Luc Besson remakes the story famous story about the French farm girl turned great martyr of Orleans in 15th century France, which provided a turgid 1948 vehicle for Ingrid Bergman, also called Joan of […]
Garish spectacle and the authentic playing of stars Ingrid Bergman and José Ferrer (as St Joan and the Dauphin) are the pluses in the 1948 historical biopic Joan of Arc. Director Victor Fleming’s 1948 historical […]
Michèle Morgan was the first ever winner of the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1946 for co-writer/ director Jean Delannoy’s moving 1946 French drama film La Symphonie Pastorale [Pastoral Symphony], an adaptation […]
Director Rowland V Lee’s lively if slack and unhistorical 1945 adventure movie Captain Kidd has the great virtue of starring the incomparable Charles Laughton as the mischievous pirate captain. He enjoys a fine old time […]
Brian Aherne, Victor McLaglen, Paul Lukas, June Lang, John Carradine, George Zucco and Douglass Dumbrille are a likely bunch of quirky stars in this likeable 1939 movie, a bright and breezy period adventure yarn from […]
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