Writer-director Brock Williams’s 1947 Gainsborough Pictures studios drama The Root of All Evil stars Phyllis Calvert, who looks unhappy, miscast in a British Joan Crawford-style role as Jeckie Farnish, getting up to dirty business to […]
Director Brian Desmond Hurst’s 1947 British film Hungry Hill [The Stranger Between] is based on the 1943 bestseller novel by Daphne du Maurier, and stars Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price, Cecil Parker, Michael Denison, Dermot Walsh, Jean […]
Director Compton Bennett’s 1948 thriller Daybreak is based on the play Grim Fairy Tale by Monckton Hoffe, and stars Ann Todd, Eric Portman and Maxwell Reed. Daybreak is a bizarre British film noir with Portman […]
Eleanor Powell dances, Nelson Eddy sings and Frank Morgan takes care of the comedy in the lavish 1937 MGM musical Rosalie. Director W S Van Dyke’s 1937 film Rosalie is an incredibly lavish and spectacular […]
Director Paul Schneider’s 1989 comedy Babycakes is an entirely unnecessary but pleasantly cast and tasty remake for American TV of Percy Adlon’s 1985 German film Sugarbaby [Zuckerbaby], providing a big fat part for Ricki Lake […]
Marianne Sägebrecht and Eisi Gulp star in writer-director Percy Adlon’s delightfully quirky and richly enjoyable 1985 German comedy film Zuckerbaby (English title Sugarbaby). It is exuberant, sad and colourful, and attractively played by its two […]
Percy Adlon’s fascinating 1981 German film Céleste tells the story of the final years of the French gay writer Marcel Proust (Jürgen Arndt) through the eyes of his housekeeper. Writer-director Percy Adlon’s fascinating 1981 German […]
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