Director John Cromwell’s 1934 romantic drama Of Human Bondage stars the 26-year-old Bette Davis, who after three years in the business finally shoots to stardom as the cold and unfeeling trampy cockney waitress Mildred Rogers, who […]
Director Hobart Henley’s 1931 drama is fondly recalled as the moment Bette Davis makes her movie début, aged 23, as the good, shy younger sister Laura Madison in this second remake of Booth Tarkington’s 1913 […]
David Lean’s lovingly made 1965 movie version of Boris Pasternak’s great Russian novel Doctor Zhivago stars Omar Sharif as the Moscow doctor and poet Yuri Zhivago, who is embroiled in the Russian revolution and parted […]
Ralph Thomas’s 1954 British comedy smash Doctor in the House is the now venerable first film of Richard Gordon’s stories of the medical students of St Swithin’s Hospital in London. It was Britain’s most popular […]
Dirk Bogarde returns as Dr Simon Sparrow in the 1955 British comedy film Doctor at Sea, with a surprise co-star in French sex symbol Brigitte Bardot, who bounces into his life as the pouting Hélène […]
A marvellous cast is assembled for director Gillies MacKinnon’s treasurable, heart-warming 2000 made-for-TV comedy drama, starring Judi Dench, Cleo Laine, Ian Holm, Joan Sims, June Whitfield, Billie Whitelaw, Olympia Dukakis and Leslie Caron. It is […]
Director Ron Shelton’s 1996 sports drama stars a still-in-his-prime Kevin Costner as troubled, ageing golf pro Roy ‘Tin Cup’ McAvoy, who gets back into the swing when sassy shrink Molly Griswold (Rene Russo) putts into […]
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