The Most Beautiful Wife (1970) is an Italian film written by Damiano Damiani, Enrico Ribulsi, and Sofia Scandurra. Directed by Damiani, the movie suggests that there is something innate about courage, but that it’s also a rarity. […]
With World War II ramping up in his native Britain, Leslie Howard felt compelled to redirect the focus of his film career to the war effort. He also wanted to expand into producer and directorial […]
In 1940, the British government asked director Michael Powell to make a film supporting the ongoing war effort against Nazi Germany. Along with his partner, Emeric Pressburger, Powell wanted to use the sanctioned platform to […]
Our Nathanael Hood embarks on a Twilight Time subsidized trip across the pond to visit France and England, by way of Robert Parrish’s In The French Style and Pat O’Connors A Month in the Country. […]
Aside from George Cukor’s visually stunning musical masterpiece My Fair Lady (1964), Pygmalion (1938), directed by Anthony Asquith (with Leslie Howard receiving co-director credits), is the only other significant film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s […]
By the time the credits of Tony Rome are done rolling we’ve seen Frank Sinatra’s eponymous P.I. character drink a can of Budweiser on a boat, blatantly ogle a bikini babe, and gamble in a […]
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