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 […]
Esteemed British film-maker Michael Powell’s 1934 Red Ensign [US title: Strike!] is an intriguing early low-budget (£12,000) quota quickie from him. Even so, it was Powell’s 12th film in four years, and, humble though it is, it is […]
The Love Test is an early Michael Powell 1935 romantic comedy about love shenanigans among a laboratory’s research chemists, who plot to make their disliked new boss, Mary Lee (Judy Gunn), fall for John Gregg […]
The one-time ‘Queen of the Screen’ Marion Davies stars as New York chorus girl Daisy Dell the Florodora Girl, in the Gay Nineties – the 1890s, that is. Daisy’s married friends encourage her to reject her life […]
Charles Crichton, best known for his comedies, directs this robust, tough-toned British-made, but American-set 1958 black and white action adventure thriller Floods of Fear. The story is about two convicts (Howard Keel, Cyril Cusack), a […]
Director Frederick Wilson’s 1949 British drama Floodtide stars Gordon Jackson as young Scots ships apprentice David Shields, who graduates to boat designing, while he is meantime romancing his boss Anstruther (Jack Lambert)’s daughter Mary (Rona […]
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