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Posts Tagged "period drama"
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Doctor Faustus ** (1967, Richard Burton, Andreas Teuber, Elizabeth Taylor ) – Classic Movie Review 9884
In the 1967 film Doctor Faustus, Richard Burton records his intense and honourable 1966 stage performance at the Oxford Playhouse with the student actors of the Oxford University Drama Society (OUDS) of Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century […]
Die Marquise von O… [The Marquise of O] **** (1976, Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Edda Seippel) – Classic Movie Review 9466
Eric Rohmer’s witty and affecting adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist’s famous novella Die Marquise von O… [The Marquise of O] is set at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. It focuses on the honourable German […]
Saint Joan *** (1957, Jean Seberg, Richard Widmark, Richard Todd, Anton Walbrook, Felix Aylmer, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 9255
Producer-director Otto Preminger’s 1957 biographical drama Saint Joan stars Jean Seberg, Richard Widmark, Richard Todd, Anton Walbrook, Felix Aylmer and John Gielgud. Despite this strong cast, it was always going to be a tricky task […]
The Assassination Bureau *** (1969, Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Curd Jürgens, Philippe Noiret, Warren Mitchell, Clive Revill, Beryl Reid, Kenneth Griffith, Jess Conrad) – Classic Movie Review 8167
Director Basil Dearden’s 1968 British movie The Assassination Bureau stars Diana Rigg as English newswoman Sonya Winter, who sets out to expose a Russian criminal Ivan Dragomiloff (Oliver Reed)’s globetrotting band of terminators by romancing […]
Zarak ** (1956, Victor Mature, Michael Wilding, Anita Ekberg, Bonar Colleano, Eunice Gayson, Finlay Currie, Peter Illing, Yana) – Classic Movie Review 8012
Look what’s on the menu: ‘Pillage! Plunder! Passion! A SENSATION OF EXCITEMENT AND THRILLS!’ [Spoiler alert] An eclectic cast stars in director Terence Young’s interesting if run-of-the-mill 1956 action adventure thriller Zarak, about a British […]