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Director James Goldstone’s 1972 MGM American mystery thriller film They Only Kill Their Masters stars James Garner, Katharine Ross, Hal Holbrook and Harry Guardino. It is a just passable movie, but with two loveable ingredients […]
Director Stanley Donen’s 1954 Eastmancolor MGM musical Deep in My Heart is another one of Hollywood’s starry biopics of a composer – this time starring José Ferrer as the Hungarian-born US composer of operettas Sigmund […]
MGM’s curious 1932 drama Strange Interlude stars Norma Shearer and Clark Gable, and is based on a play by Eugene O’Neill, who called it ‘a dreadful hash of attempted condensation and idiotic censorship.’ Director Robert […]
Robert Mitchum stars as the presumed dead soldier Paul Aubert, who comes home to Brittany from war service in World War Two to find his battle and German prison camp buddy Jean (Richard Hart, from […]
Writer-director Jack Haley Jnr’s 1974 film is a golden celebration of MGM’s wonderful musicals in 50 years of its movies, made to celebrate the studio’s golden jubilee. It was ironically MGM’s biggest hit for many […]
The 1934 romantic drama film The Painted Veil stars the great Greta Garbo, who luminously graces this plush, soapy drama based on W Somerset Maugham’s 1925 novel. Director Richard Boleslawski’s 1934 romantic drama film The […]
Director Clarence Brown’s vintage, huge five-hankie 1946 family weepie is based on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s classic 1938 novel. Claude Jarman Jnr was awarded a miniature special Oscar on Academy Awards night for his deeply affecting […]