George Cukor’s 1935 romantic comedy adventure film Sylvia Scarlett stars Katharine Hepburn the title role of a female con artist who disguises herself as a boy to escape the police. Director George Cukor’s 1935 romantic […]
George Cukor’s 1938 classic romantic comedy film Holiday is the perfect example of the Hollywood screwball comedy of remarriage that its stars Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant specialised in and made their own. Director George […]
Director Michael Powell’s eighth film, made in 1932 when he was an unknown director, is a musical comedy with a surprisingly complex plot about Bert Gibbs (Jerry Verno), a cheery Cockney plumber who is also […]
Jane Russell is on her best form as Robert Mitchum’s kind of woman, in the delirious 1951 black-and-white film noir thriller His Kind of Woman (1951). Director John Farrow’s 1951 delirious black-and-white film noir thriller […]
Director Howard Hawks’s 1940 classic slice of screwball comedy greatness reworks the vintage 1928 stage play The Front Page (first filmed as The Front Page in 1931) with a sex swap angle resulting from Columbia […]
Director Basil Dearden’s 1949 Ealing Studios film classic was incredibly popular in the UK in 1950, seen by 13,300,000 just in Britain that year. It started a whole new kind of realist cinema in the […]
Director Randal Kleiser’s striking-looking but daft 1980 romantic adventure movie of Henry De Vere Stacpoole’s novel remakes the 1949 British film The Blue Lagoon with Jean Simmons and Donald Houston, but adds a lot of […]
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