Director Mario Costo’s 1960 swashbuckling adventure The Queen of the Pirates [La Venere dei Pirati] [Venus der Piraten] is yet another dubbed Italian costume drama of the peplum film genre’s era of wild popularity, set in […]
Director Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1968 Queimada [Burn!] [Battle of the Antilles] is part epic adventure-drama, part critical account of British colonialism. Pontecorvo’s sequel to his 1965 The Battle of Algiers tells the story of the British […]
Director Michael Powell handles this 1961 British film The Queen’s Guards as a dull, flag-waving tale of two generations of The Queen’s Grenadier Guards, old Captain Fellowes and young John Fellowes (Raymond Massey and Daniel […]
Dr Benjamin Twist: ‘When all’s said and done, the boys can’t answer questions for which they don’t know the answers, can they?’ Director Marcel Varnel’s 1937 British treasure Good Morning, Boys stars the truly eccentric […]
Director Michael Powell, separated from his regular film-making partner Emeric Pressburger, went to Spain in 1959 to make the last of his ballet films, Honeymoon [Luna de Miel], a listless romance about an ex-ballerina Anna […]
Director Michael Powell’s quickly made 1935 British black and white quota quickie comedy Lazybones is based on a forgotten play by Ernest Denny. The dependable Ian Hunter stars as Sir Reginald Ford, known as Lazybones, […]
In his minor 1935 early effort The Phantom Light, director Michael Powell injects a strong, haunting atmosphere into a jovial suspense comedy-thriller yarn set around a supposedly haunted Welsh lighthouse, whose keeper has earlier been […]
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