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Ronald Neame’s 1947 British crime film Take My Life is adapted from from an original screen story by Winston Graham and Valerie Taylor, and stars Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt and Marius Goring. Director Ronald Neame’s […]
The 1951 MGM romantic comedy film Strictly Dishonorable is based on the 1929 hit Broadway play by Preston Sturges, and stars Italian opera singer Ezio Pinza and Janet Leigh. Writer/ producer/ directors Norman Panama and Melvin […]
The 1954 British film Svengali is based on George du Maurier’s novel Trilby, and tells the story of the famous hypnotist Svengali who abuses his skill for the sake of a woman. Director Noel Langley’s […]
Director Gregory Ratoff’s likeably performed and entertainingly written 1939 romantic triangle comedy film Wife, Husband and Friend stars Loretta Young, Warner Baxter and Binnie Barnes in the three title roles. Warner Baxter plays Borland, Loretta […]
Director W S Van Dyke’s pleasurable 1936 MGM black and white musical Rose-Marie stars Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Reginald Owen, Allan Jones, James Stewart, and Alan Mowbray. Opera singer Marie de Flor (MacDonald) searches for […]
‘Without an enemy there can be no war.’ Happy Christmas [Joyeux Noël] (2005) is the somewhat fictionalised, and very sentimental version of the story of the First World War Christmas ceasefire in the trenches, where […]
MGM’s life of Johann Strauss Jr – the splendid 1938 musical biopic film The Great Waltz – gets the lavish production and high-flying European stars. ‘Your beating heart, your pounding pulse will tell you it’s […]