Home video The Master’s gothic classic has an enigmatic and complicated home video history Various iterations are scattered across four decades of releases on every format In all, two separate …
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Production Blockbuster: über-producer David O. Selznick’s big budget follow-up to Gone with the Wind To helm the successor to the biggest film of all time, he imported Britain’s biggest director …
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Bestseller to blockbuster: The Mistress of Romance meets the Master of Suspense Kissing cousins: Rebecca keeps it in the family and births a torrid tale Daphne du Maurier’s second bestseller …
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Revisiting contemporary and modern critical appreciation Alfred Hitchcock’s first Hollywood film has a British flavour First adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s bestselling novel Blockbuster success: nominated for 11 Oscars, winning …
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The Master’s style: Hitch established distinct visual language from the start Even his earliest films contain hallmark themes, since endlessly imitated MacGuffins, murder, love, sex, voyeurism, attractive blondes, espionage, Domineering …
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Home video, soundtrack and tealing The film has faced a longer, rockier road that the characters it depicts Bad luck on the small screen: home video has not been kind …
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Fictionalised but effective biopic of a brave, tenacious humanitarian A blockbuster that brought global attention to a very worthy cause But quasi-historical epic presents Hollywoodised version of the facts Heroic …
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Robert Donat was awarded the Best Actor Oscar for his signature role No mean feat against stiff competition in Hollywood’s Greatest Year Convincingly plays caring, diffident schoolteacher from youth to …
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1948–1958 Flag waver: Continues to pick projects highlighting the best of British The theatre, radio and film star expands into still-new medium of TV However, despite best heroic efforts his …
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1942–1947 His international stardom continued throughout the 1940s Featured in a broad range of romantic, action and political parts They were aimed at boosting wartime morale and national pride All …