‘SHE KNEW MEN LIKE A BOOK-SHE THOUGHT SHE DID… UNTIL A ROMANTIC YOUNGSTER OPENED HER EYES TO A PAGE OF GENUINE ROMANCE!’ Director Frank Lloyd’s 1933 American pre-Code romantic drama film Hoopla [Hoop-La] stars Clara […]
The beautiful, complex and thoughtful 2020 Canadian documentary No Ordinary Man takes an in-depth look at the life of American jazz musician, bandleader and now trans culture icon Billy Tipton (December 29, 1914 – January 21, […]
‘They’re Beautiful…They’re Glamorous…They’re Scandalous…’ Director Irving Cummings’s 1945 American Technicolor biographical film The Dolly Sisters stars Betty Grable (as Jenny) who teams up with June Haver (as Rosie) in the fictionalised real-life story of the 1900s famed […]
Writer-director George Seaton’s 1945 Technicolor treat film Diamond Horseshoe [Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe] is based on the 1928 play The Barker by John Kenyon Nicholson, which has fun with Freudian psychoanalysis, and stars Betty Grable, […]
The creaky, old-style 1962 drama film Diamond Head is a case of well-meaning, but badly dated and overheated melodramatics in Hawaii, with Charlton Heston over-egging the pudding as a bigoted, bullying Hawaiian landowner. ‘The Giant […]
Director Robert Stevenson’s 1938 British black and white thriller The Ware Case is a creaky but gripping third film version (after 1917 and 1928 silents) of George Pleydell Bancroft’s courtroom play about a womanising financier […]
Director Sidney Hayers’s 1974 crime mystery Diagnosis: Murder is a rather weary and drab production-line Seventies British thriller that seems older even than its years, about psychiatrist Dr Stephen Hayward (Christopher Lee) accused in anonymous […]
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