 | Green Dolphin Street [Read More ...]
Review: Marguerite, Marianne, and the Maori:"Green Dolphin Street" is one of those cheesefests of Hollywood's Golden Age that has slipped into obscurity. At least "Black Narcissus",the camp classic,has its own Criterion Edition. Why NOT the love triangle set in New Zealand, with its need... |
 | First a Girl (Hollywood Gold Volume 15) [Read More ...]
Review: Makes for a good comparison to Victor/Victoria:This little British-made gem of a film was one of the last movies to be released exclusively on VHS format. Too bad it wasn't one of the first to be released on DVD. It is similar in storyline to Victor/Victoria, but it is different ... |
 | Silver Chalice [Read More ...]
Paul Newman - in his screen debut - plays a 1st century Greek sculptor who is sold into slavery. He escapes harm when his talent is discovered and he is comissioned to create a replica of the chalice Jesus drank from at the Last Supper. |
 | Tonight & Every Night [Read More ...]
Review: There's another person besides Rita, who makes this movie watchable.:His name was Marc Platt, a brilliant dancer who made his movie debut in this film, and I doubt if anybody who ever saw it has forgotten him, though they may not remember his name.
Marc Platt was, I think, the ... |
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| The Silver Chalice [Read More ...]
Review: Don't Drink From This Chalice:One of the worst films in this genre starring Paul Newman, Virginia Mayo, Jack Palance, Pier Angeli, Joseph Wiseman, Natalie Wood, E.G. Marshall, Lorne Greene and Alexander Scourby. The story follows the life of a Greek slave asked to craft a silver ... |
 | Dark Journey [Read More ...]
First rate spy thriller:"Dark Journey" is an exciting spy story, full of humor. The pace is swift. There is a moving romance and the actors are superb. |
 | Evensong 1934 [Read More ...]
Review: Worth the purchase price just to see and hear Supervia:Towards the end of her life, Australian opera diva, Dame Nellie Melba, dictated her autobiography Beverly Nichols, an established author who proved also to be a vicious gossip. Published in 1925 under the name "Melodies and ... |
 | Forever & A Day [Read More ...]
Description: A slow-moving but historic attempt to bolster the British War Relief effort in 1943, Forever and a Day is a drama about the inhabitants of a magnificent English home, beginning in the early 19th century. The story isn't much, but there's a charming spirituality about the house ... |
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 | South Riding [Read More ...]
Review: wonderful...but not the film described:I purchased a venerable old VHS copy of this film based on my love of British cinema and the reader's comments above.
Surprise, surprise. "South Riding" is indeed wonderful, but the plot has nothing to do with what the other reviewer descr... |
 | Conspirator (1949) [Read More ...]
Review: It was better than I expected...:This movie is set in post-World War II London, and is about a young woman who marries an older man who works as a Soviet spy. She discovers his secret, and tries to make him quit. He continues his secret life, and she threatens to expose him to th... |
 | Forever and a Day [Read More ...]
Description: A slow-moving but historic attempt to bolster the British War Relief effort in 1943, Forever and a Day is a drama about the inhabitants of a magnificent English home, beginning in the early 19th century. The story isn't much, but there's a charming spirituality about the house ... |
 | The Iron Duke [Read More ...]
Description: The undisputed king of historical biopics, flamboyant stage star George Arliss, really shines in this opulent production. It's a historical account of The Duke of Wellington during the years 1815 and 1816, as he contends with political enemies and turncoats during the Napoleonic ... |
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 | Storm in a Teacup [Read More ...]
Description: Oscar®-winners Vivien Leigh (Gone With the Wind, That Hamilton Woman) and Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady, Major Barbara) star in this gentle satire on politics, love, and the press. When English reporter Frank Burdon (Harrison) arrives in a small Scottish town, he quickly investiga... |
 | Kim [Read More ...]
Kim:This film hasn't lost any of it's adventure,style or humor for me since I first watched it 20 years ago. Hollywood managed to capture Kipling's view of a beautiful country & a proud people.Our children have enjoyed it as much as I did when I first saw it. |
 | Dark Journey [Read More ...]
Description: One of Britain's great romantic classics of the 1930s, Dark Journey stars Oscar®-winner Vivien Leigh (Gone With the Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire) as a beautiful double spy who falls in love with her greatest enemy. Set in neutral Stockholm during World War I, this thrilling d... |
 | Dark Journey [Read More ...]
Description: Conrad Veidt (an early refugee of Hitler) and Vivien Leigh supply the chief interest in Dark Journey--they, and trying to follow what the hell is going on from scene to scene. During World War I, Stockholm in neutral Sweden is a hotbed of international espionage--an especially pe... |
 | Dark Journey (1937) [Read More ...]
Description: Conrad Veidt (an early refugee of Hitler) and Vivien Leigh supply the chief interest in Dark Journey--they, and trying to follow what the hell is going on from scene to scene. During World War I, Stockholm in neutral Sweden is a hotbed of international espionage--an especially pe... |
