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Take Time for Time Without Pity (’57)

Jan 14, 2017 Jill Blake 0

Isn’t Michael Redgrave simply marvelous? No matter the role, Michael Redgrave brings a sort of respectability and class; he commands the screen. Take his brief performance as the unnamed, mysterious uncle in Jack Clayton’s The […]

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An Unexpected Farewell: Leslie Howard’s Spitfire (1942)

Dec 10, 2016 Jill Blake 0

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 […]

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A Call to Arms: 49th Parallel (1941)

Dec 3, 2016 Jill Blake 0

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 […]

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Love in Enunciation: Leslie Howard in Pygmalion (1938)

Nov 26, 2016 Jill Blake 0

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 […]

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Beatlemania: A Family Tradition

Nov 5, 2016 Jill Blake 0

  My mom’s first experience with The Beatles was like most people of her generation; her first glimpse of the mop-topped foursome was on February 9, 1964, on America’s favorite Sunday night pastime, The Ed […]

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Ladykiller: Sir Richard Attenborough in 10 RILLINGTON PLACE

Jun 8, 2016 Nathanael Hood 0

What a ghastly little cretin lives on the ground floor of 10 Rillington Place. Short, fat, and balding, the little round spectacles complete the mousey persona of John Christie, one of the most notorious post-World […]

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