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Douglas Sirk’s magnificently melodramatic 1954 romantic film Magnificent Obsession finds the perfect stars in Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson and Agnes Moorehead. Cult director Douglas Sirk’s magnificently melodramatic 1954 American romantic drama film Magnificent Obsession finds […]
‘Behind the lighted tower windows the conflict of love and power is reckless and daring!’ Director Robert Wise’s Oscar-nominated 1954 drama stars Barbara Stanwyck as Julia O Tredway, who oversees the candidates for new board […]
Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence are ideally teamed and perfectly cast in this ambitious romantic Western, set in late-1920s Depression-era North Carolina, but filmed in the Czech Republic. And filmed very beautifully. It’s a costly-looking, incredibly handsome, […]
This 1931 Alfred Hitchcock early sound film is surprisingly obvious, thin and conservative-minded, so it is a bit of a bad surprise from this director. It plays like a Victorian melodrama with a moral and […]