The 1944 American film noir Farewell, My Lovely [Murder, My Sweet] stars Dick Powell in the first film to feature Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled private detective Philip Marlowe. ‘A Sensational Triumph for the NEW Dick Powell.’ […]
George Sanders stars in 1942 in a highspot in Michael Arlen’s débonair detective Falcon series, unexpectedly based on Raymond Chandler’s Farewell, My Lovely, and the first film of the great writer’s classic hardboiled crime thriller […]
Orson Welles lost control of his 1942 film The Magnificent Ambersons to RKO, who cut more than an hour of footage and shot a happier ending. Film-maker Brian Rose has revealed his plan to restore […]
Director Michael Winner’s 1978 reworking of Howard Hawks’s 1946 film noir masterpiece The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall makes the twin cardinal errors of updating the yarn to the Seventies and misplacing […]
The 1964 follow-up movie Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte is less iconic but perhaps an even smarter mystery horror thriller film, with Bette Davis returning triumphantly from What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Director Robert Aldrich’s […]
Writer-director Anthony Mingella’s stunning-looking 1996 David Lean-style epic is an unabashed tugger at the heartstrings set at the end of World War Two. Star Ralph Fiennes gives a lofty and aloof performance, leading with his […]
In Welsh writer-director Christopher Monger’s 1995’s romantic comedy, Hugh Grant has an awfully small adventure in a Welsh small town in 1917. He and Ian McNeice play English cartographers who arrive to measure the height […]
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