The Naked Jungle is one wild film. There’s a vast amount of sexual tension crackling away between Eleanor Parker and Charlton Heston, something which leads to their shared scenes and dialogue delivery being so sexually suggestive that you really do have to wonder quite how those moments got approved by the infamously prudish and sharp-eyed censors.... Continue Reading →
Two British documentaries were released in cinemas in 1924. Each followed two very different but equally dangerous and doomed expeditions attempting to make history at two of the deadliest and coldest locations on the planet. John Noel's The Epic Of Everest documented the attempted British ascent of Mount Everest earlier that year, while Herbert Ponting's... Continue Reading →
1944 was a seminal year for Film Noir with some of the greatest films in the genre being released that year: Double Indemnity, Phantom Lady, Laura, To Have And Have Not, The Woman In The Window, The Ministry Of Fear and Murder, My Sweet. Whenever I hear or read the words Film Noir, Murder, My Sweet is... Continue Reading →
My friend Virginie at The Wonderful World Of Cinema recently nominated me for The Sunshine Blogger Award. Thanks so much, Ginnie. Before I answer her questions, here are the rules of the award. Include the Sunshine Blogger Awards somewhere on your blog and/or in the article Thank the person who nominated you Share the link... Continue Reading →
This month marks the third anniversary of my site. I want to thank you all for your continued support. It still amazes me that so many of you care what I have to say or share about classic era films and television. Every comment and like left here means more to me than you can... Continue Reading →
“I just want to pay tribute to Ginger because we did so many pictures together and believe me it was a value to have that gal. She had it. She was just great.” - Fred Astaire “I loved Fred so, and I mean that in the nicest, warmest way. I had such affection for him... Continue Reading →
The most popular film at the British box office in 1946 wasn't Brief Encounter, Gilda, or A Matter Of Life And Death; it was actually the Gainsborough film The Wicked Lady. To this day the film remains, in a tie with The Man In Grey(1943), the most popular and acclaimed of the Gainsborough Melodramas of... Continue Reading →
Akira Kurosawa's ninth film is a tense, claustrophobic, neorealist detective story set in postwar Japan. When he began writing the script, Kurosawa found inspiration in the literary works of Maigret author Georges Simenon, and in director Jules Dassin’s American Noir The Naked City(1948). The similarities between Stray Dog and The Naked City are clear to see. Both films have a... Continue Reading →
We have always made some of the world's very best television dramas here in the UK. Unfortunately quite a few of the wonderful series we made before the 1990's have become forgotten by some who watched on original release, and most younger viewers have never even heard of them. Here are five brilliant period dramas... Continue Reading →
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