In a film of the greatest warmth and humanity, director Yves Robert’s 1990 French triumph La Gloire de Mon Père [My Father’s Glory] brings vividly to life on the screen Marcel (Jean de Florette) Pagnol’s […]
Director Yves Robert’s 1990 Le Château de Ma Mère [My Mother’s Castle] is the glorious sequel to La Gloire de Mon Père [My Father’s Glory]. Julien Ciamaca is superb as the teenager Marcel Pagnol, who […]
Director Al Christie’s 1930 Charley’s Aunt is the first sound version of the venerable Brandon Thomas cross dressing comedy farcical play, with an engaging, very entertaining star performance by Charles Ruggles. But it is a […]
Director Edgar G Ulmer’s 1960 black and white Sci-Fi film The Amazing Transparent Man is cheap and cheerful, and still enjoyable despite – or because of – the rotten effects and cheesy action. To create […]
Director Edgar G Ulmer’s 1960 Sci-Fi time-travel film Beyond the Time Barrier stars Robert Clarke as a 1960 military test pilot called Major William Allison, who is caught in a time warp and lands in […]
Director Henry Hathaway’s 1960 French Riviera black and white caper movie Seven Thieves stars Edward G Robinson as old reprobate professor Theo Wilkins, who leads a gang of thieves in a cleverly constructed plot to […]
Director Ronald Neame’s 1957 The Seventh Sin is a soapy drama based on W Somerset Maugham’s novel The Painted Veil, with an unfaithful wife, the selfish American Carolyn Carwin (Eleanor Parker), enjoying a fling with French […]
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