The 1946 Italian war drama Paisà [Paisan] is director Roberto Rossellini’s classic neo-realist account of how Italians lived in chaos, peril, emotional upheaval and hunger during the allied invasion of 1943-44, as the Allies head […]
Director Roberto Rossellini’s 1947 Italian neo-realist masterpiece classic drama Germany Year Zero [Germania Anno Zero] is a horrific portrait of Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War, as experienced by a 12-year-old lad (Edmund […]
Director Henry King’s 1937 romantic drama Seventh Heaven is an intriguing but mostly unsatisfactory remake of the 1927 silent film classic 7th Heaven with Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. This time James Stewart is improbably […]
The 1944 war film None Shall Escape was made during World War Two but it is set in a post-war Nuremberg-style war crimes trial. Alexander Knox plays Wilhelm Grimm, the Nazi officer on trial. ‘I would rather die than be forced into a […]
Director Frank Borzage’s achingly yearning and appealing – though alas now faded – 1927 silent classic 7th Heaven is a romantic, idealised view of the lower depths. Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell star as a […]
Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell make the ideal star couple for director Frank Borzage, here directing them for the third time in this compellingly romantic, if somewhat mawkish 1928 early sound film Street Angel, which […]
The title of Perfect Day (1929) is ironic of course as Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy take their wives Mrs Laurel (Isabelle Keith) and Mrs Hardy (Kay Deslys) and gouty Uncle Edgar (Edgar Kennedy) out […]
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