Titanic (1953) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
I shall spare you both bitchy preferences about the best Titanic movies and bleating about historical inaccuracies. Jean Negulesco’s film …
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Confidential Agent (1945) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
I have a particular soft spot for the Graham Greene thriller on which this was based, being the first work …
Kiss of Death (1947) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
True story recounted in Adrian Boot and Michael Thomas’ photo-book “Babylon on a Thin Wire”: Kiss of Death was immensely …
Conquest (1937) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
From the moment an opening title tells us that “This is a story of an historic love – the imaginative …
Werewolf of London (1935) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
The first, rather ill-fated effort by Universal Studios to create a werewolf film was obviously obscured by the subsequent Lon …
Humoresque (1946) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
What might have been a standard studio weepie is alchemised into a genuinely poetic-realist epic by Jean Negulesco’s brilliant filmmaking …
The Naked and the Dead (1958) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
I should really hate Raoul Walsh’s adaptation of Norman Mailer’s great novel as much as my friend Marilyn Ferdinand hates …
Madame Curie (1943) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Happy recollections of a movie slightly disappointed: distinctly overlong and terribly mushy in its first third, Curie takes a long …
His Girl Friday (1940) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. . Random and unimportant thoughts on a well-regarded classic: Memories of the excruciatingly bland and forced recycling job that …
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
.. You don’t need to know much about Fred C. Dobbs after taking a quick glance at him. He’s a …
