Madeleine Carroll is excellent as the scandalous middle-aged Mrs Erlynne in a smooth, civilised, well-dressed film of Oscar Wilde’s 1892 play Lady Windermere’s Fan in 1949 with the cut-down title of The Fan. Producer-director Otto […]
Director Otto Preminger turns Kathleen Winsor’s saucy and salty 1944 historical romantic novel, set in 1660s England, becomes a famous and costly but low-voltage 1947 bodice-ripper of a movie, thanks to poor casting and censorship […]
Ealing Studios’s popular 1942 film is an adroit mixture of comedy, wartime adventure, spy story and semi-documentary authenticity, imaginatively realised by director Charles Frend. Informative and morale-boosting as well as entertaining, it was made with […]
The spirited classic 1947 swashbuckling adventure film Captain from Castile hands the handsome and dashing Tyrone Power a tailor-made role as the 16th-century young Spanish officer Pedro De Vargas. Director Henry King’s spirited classic 1947 […]
Writer-director Albert Lewin’s 1943 romantic drama is a compelling and thoughtful literary adaptation of W Somerset Maugham’s classic novel about a money broker who puts art before family. The story is loosely inspired by the life […]
The weird and wonderful 1947 film The Private Affairs of Bel Ami is a witty version of Guy de Maupassant’s novel about a journalist trampling over women on the road to success. George Sanders gives […]
Director John Ford’s 1936 historical drama makes a useful change of pace for the Westerns director, as he deals with his humanitarian tale of the unfair sentencing to life imprisonment in jail of Doctor Samuel […]
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