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‘Tennessee Williams shocks you again as he transports you to a STRANGE, NEW BOLD WORLD!’ Tennessee Williams’s famous one-act play gets a glossy, starry stage-to-screen transfer in director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1959 movie. The heat […]
Director Mike Nichols brings Edward Albee’s vitriolic, soul-searching 1962 play to the screen in a savage, razor-edged 1966 movie. It sounds like fingernails scraping down a blackboard. You might want to turn away from the […]
Thanks to her wonderfully camp and engaging appearance as a drunken romantic writer in Death on the Nile, Angela Lansbury was promoted to the plum star role of Agatha Christie’s nosy spinster sleuth Miss Jane […]
Director Franco Zeffirelli brings immense zest, impressive vitality and glorious colour to his 1967 film of the William Shakespeare play The Taming of the Shrew, while ideally cast and on-form, fired-up Richard Burton and Elizabeth […]
Rock Hudson (born 17 November 1925) achieved stardom with Magnificent Obsession (1954), All That Heaven Allows (1955) and Giant (1956), which earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. George Stevens’s ambitious 1956 film Giant was a triumph […]
Elizabeth Taylor stars as the sexy, taunting hussy Maggie the Cat, plotting to re-arouse the limp sexual interest of her sulky, alcoholic, gay husband, Brick Pollitt (Paul Newman). Brick is reunited with his father Big […]
‘What’s the meaning of goodness if there isn’t a little badness to overcome?’ Discuss! Ancient now it may be, but the MGM Studio’s fondly remembered 1944 Christmas treat can still be a good-natured rosette winner for […]