Bette Davis re-teams with her Now, Voyager co-stars Claude Rains and Paul Henreid for Warner Bros’ vintage 1946 film noir romantic drama Deception. ‘The picture wasn’t terribly good but Rains was brilliant,’ said Davis. For […]
In one of her most popular movies, double Oscar-winner Bette Davis landed another Oscar nomination for her cold, calculating and conniving Southern belle character Regina Giddens, who does terrible things to her estranged husband Horace […]
Writer-director Sally Potter’s 2000 drama stars Oleg Yankovskiy as a Russian peasant who heads for America, and promises to send for his daughter, Suzie (Christina Ricci). Later, on her way to the US to try […]
Robert Sherwood’s classic doom-laden and symbolic play is too reverentially and stagily shot in 1936 by Archie L Mayo, who is content to deliver it as a rather creaky movie museum piece of filmed theatre and not […]
George S Kaufman and Moss Hart’s acerbic famous evergreen classic Broadway play (1939) comes to the screen with all its acid and hilarity intact in Julius J Epstein and Philip G Epstein’s screenplay for director […]
Charles Dickens’s tale of a young schoolmaster Nicholas Nickleby (Charlie Hunnam), who joins a band of entertainers to support his family after being deprived of his fortune by his wicked uncle Ralph (Christopher Plummer), is […]
Charles Dickens’s tale of the young 19th-century English schoolmaster Nicholas Nickleby, who ends up with no source of income after his father dies and leaves his family destitute, is surprisingly flatly retold in director Alberto Cavalcanti’s […]
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